[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] r3332 - trunk/ChrootCompile/bin

[hisham.hm at gmail.com]

On 5/20/08, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:59 PM,  <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> GuessProgramCase uses the entries you have in /Programs. When those
>> don't match, it means you have an inconsistency somewhere. Isn't it
>> better to stop in those cases and have it fixed than to go on with the
>> program? (Especially in ChrootCompile, which aims to be pedantic on
>> the cleanliness of packages.)
>
> ChrootCompile shouldn't consider programs from the host system, unless
> when invoked with --local-programs. Program names should be taken from
> Dependencies files instead.

Fair point.

> I wonder what happens when one runs
> GuessProgramCase in a case-insensitive filesystem, too.

We probably don't need to worry about that; I think we never claimed
to support  case-insensitive filesystems (there are things in Linux
that are known to break if you use those to store your system in,
IIRC; that's why things like umsdos were created back then).

-- Hisham