Re: Generated GDB documentation have colliding files on a case insensitive files system

Torbjorn SVENSSON via Gdb-patches
2023-01-15T17:44:27Z

On 2023-01-15 18:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:22:54 +0100
>> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>> From: Torbjorn SVENSSON <torbjorn.svensson@foss.st.com>
>>
>> As I see it, there are 3 different options for the documentation in GDB:
>>
>> 1. Leave everything as is and forget about all users extracting a cross
>> built GDB with documentation and let the users deal with duplicated files...
>>
>> 2. Set the CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAMES option and also change one of the
>> anchors to have unique files. This will require Texinfo >7.0.1 that is
>> not yet released.
>>
>> 3. Generate one single big HTML file. This should be supported with
>> existing versions of Texinfo, although I haven't tested this option.
>> What would be needed in GDB sources is to replace the command line
>> option --split-size with --no-split to avoid generating more than one file.
>>
>>
>> What option would you prefer?
>
> I think we should rename one of the anchors, and otherwise leave
> things at that, because doing so will resolve the problem even without
> using CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAMES and without waiting for a future
> release of Texinfo, right?

I suppose that would work, but there would be no indication of a
potential future clash. Maybe that's okay anyway?