[tex-live] TexLive 20070128 doesn't work well under Win32

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Fri Feb 2 15:59:17 CET 2007


"HH" == Hans Hagen writes:

 > I refer a part of Olaf's code:
 >
 > #ifndef DB_NAME
 > #define DB_NAME "ls-R"
 > #endif
 > #ifndef DB_NAME_LC
 > #define DB_NAME_LC "ls-r"
 > #endif
 >
 > static const_string db_names[] = {
 >     DB_NAME,
 >     DB_NAME_LC,
 >     NULL
 > };
 HH> actually, (as with any kpse file read), the first hit (within a
 HH> path) should abort further reading

on a case-insensitive filesystems, a search for "ls-R" should always
find the file, even if it is named "ls-r", right?

why, then, include both files into the db_names? it should just
contain "ls-R" in all cases.

Best,
v.


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