[tlbuild] casefolding fallback search

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Wed Feb 7 12:47:08 CET 2018


> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/71357/how-to-check-if-my-hd-is-case-sensitive-or-not

These answers are all trivial, but not applicable for a *library*
written in C. Of course we can touch a file, and try to read it in again
with changes up/lowercase, but this is time consuming if done for each
tree and each call. That is not a solution.

> quite possible to end up with different case sensitivity of files
> within the same TEXMF tree.

Yes indeed, that is the reason why Mac is so badly f**ked up ;-)

Norbert

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