Re: win32 diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1 "--ignore-file-name-case" switch doesn't work

[Pinchao Lu]

--- Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> No; it just means that I'd prefer to have the
> distribution maintainer
> filter out those bugs before we have to read them,
> as many of them
> tend to be Windows-specific.

I've filed a bug report with the "gnuwin32" project
maintainer. 
Here is the bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=873785&group_id=23617&atid=379173

Here is the reply from the maintainer:
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Date: 2004-01-11 02:51
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This is a bug in diff itself, not in the MS-Windows
port as 
such. See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-
utils/2002-12/msg00067.html. It will probably be fixed
in a 
later release.
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> > Isn't that a bug to use strcoll if strcasecmp
> compared the file
> > names to be equal?
> 
> Unfortunately, the problem is more subtle than that.
>  What is actually
> needed is a "strcasecoll" routine, which compares
> file names in a
> case-insensitive way in arbitrary locales.
> 
> For a similar case I've been thinking of using the
> patch described in
>
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-12/msg00079.html>.
> However, given your discussion it seems that this
> patch isn't correct
> either....


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