From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: Files from gnulib Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <8362tdzl7m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y66bzuhc.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C81A1.70009@cs.ucla.edu> <83ipxfymox.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295928037 3432 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 04:00:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 05:00:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pha51-000182-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:00:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pha50-0004Vq-Ew for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33538 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pha4r-0004Ua-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pha4q-000887-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pha4i-00086i-PY; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LFK00G0089EZF00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:11 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.46.39]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LFK00GHD8G5WH20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134918 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24901 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:06 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: Stefan Monnier , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 01/23/11 20:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > The program used to unpack the .tar.gz archives automatically renames > > ant .FOO files to _FOO while unpacking, so that's not a problem. > > OK, so it sounds like there's already part of a solution here, > in that files are automatically renamed to avoid the MS-DOS > restrictions. > > How about if we expand on that solution, as follows: > > * Just before creating a tarball for MS-DOS, apply > the following substitutions to the contents of all > files that go into the tarball: There are no special tarballs for MSDOS. People use the tarball from the GNU FTP site. So this solution will not work. > * The conflicting names in m4/* don't matter, for the same > reason that conflicts in admin/* and tests/* don't matter: > these files are not used in an MS-DOS build. The files in m4/ still matter because you need to unpack the tarball, and the utility that does that won't silently overwrite files due to file-name clashes.