From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25553 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2010 16:15:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 25541 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Nov 2010 16:15:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:15:46 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LCI009002EI1C00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:15:44 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.63.39]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LCI0077J2I6MRL0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:15:44 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:15:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Fix doc index name on Windows In-reply-to: <4CEFCD32.40203@eCosCentric.com> To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <837hg06oup.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4CEE9F77.1070509@eCosCentric.com> <4CEEAF36.7030005@eCosCentric.com> <83ipzk70w4.fsf@gnu.org> <201011261203.05391.pedro@codesourcery.com> <83d3ps6y9b.fsf@gnu.org> <4CEFCD32.40203@eCosCentric.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:07:30 +0000 > From: Jonathan Larmour > CC: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > IMO, "broken" is an exaggeration. How many tools did you see that > > care about having their files produced on Unix be compatible with > > NTFS? How many maintainers of GNU packages do you know who would even > > consider a possibility of inserting NTFS-related limitations into > > their codebase? > > Evidently quite a few because my patch just brings GDB into line with what > GAS, binutils, BFD, CPP, and LD's docs explicitly do. In this respect GDB > is the odd one out. I didn't mean in the manual, I meant in the code. Most packages assume that any file name is valid, and that file names are just case-sensitive strings. Some packages (GDB is one) are nice enough to admit that file-name comparison should be case-insensitive on non-Posix platforms. But I can count on fingers of one hand those that have code fragments that cater to more serious limitations or idiosyncrasies of non-Posix platforms. > People don't use a special cross version of makeinfo. GDB doesn't try and > invoke one, for example. Which is quite right. Well, evidently it is NOT right, because stock makeinfo doesn't care about this issue, except if you actually run it on Windows. If we are going to have a coding convention that the Index nodes should not be called just "Index", this should be at least in the Texinfo manual, if not in standards.texi.