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

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Feb 2 16:58:37 CET 2007


Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru> writes:

> "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?

Only if the search is case-insensitive.  This will be the case when an
actual attempt is made to open the file, but not necessarily so when
the information about the presence of the file is derived in some
other manner, like listing a directory.

-- 
David Kastrup


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