Can't install a package in 3.1.53ff

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Mon Mar 9 13:33:48 CDT 2009


On  8-Mar-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| søn, 08 03 2009 kl. 21:46 +0100, skrev Thomas Treichl:
| > Then I think we already found the bug. On Macs, if there exists a directory 
| > 'doc' then this is the same as 'dOc', 'DOC' etc. from the system's view (not the 
| > filesystem's view).
| 
| Now that's just silly! But if that's the way things are, then that's the
| way things are. So, what should we then call our documentation cache?
| "DOC.mat", "DOC_CACHE", "doc_cache", <your_favorite_suggestion> ?

Yeah, filesystems that are case-insensitive but still preserve case
are just annoying.

I checked in the follwoing change.  Does it work for you?

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6994961bf1f4

jwe



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