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

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2023-01-15T17:39:39Z

> 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?