From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12481 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2011 17:30:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 12463 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2011 17:30:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il (HELO mtaout22.012.net.il) (80.179.55.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:30:40 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LMU00500D5JG700@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:30:39 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.164.125]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LMU0059GDZ0HP10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:30:38 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:47:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems In-reply-to: <4DF8907F.5080807@adacore.com> To: Robert Dewar Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, vinschen@redhat.com, dj@redhat.com, pinskia@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <834o3r9f7f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1308087182-26577-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <201106142201.p5EM1vOd006127@greed.delorie.com> <20110615082236.GP12140@calimero.vinschen.de> <201106150958.p5F9wJ7x019158@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4DF8907F.5080807@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg01175.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:59:11 -0400 > From: Robert Dewar > CC: vinschen@redhat.com, dj@redhat.com, pinskia@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > or some piece of code in the toolchain arbitrarily changed the > > case of a filename. I don't mind punishing people for that. They > > have to learn that on a proper operating system file names are > > case-sensitive! > > This kind of unix arrogance leads to junk unusable software on > windows. It's really important not to visit your unix predjudices > on windows users. After all we feel the same way in return, I > find Unix systems complete junk for many reasons, one of which > is the very annoying case sensitive viewpoint, but I do not > translate my feelings into silly suggestions for making > software malfunction on Unix. You should not make this mistake > in a reverse direction. I cannot agree more.