Re: Case Insensitive Filesystems

[Mark D. Baushke]

Larry Jones <lawrence.jones@eds.com> writes:

> Derek Robert Price writes:
> > 
> > How do you feel about detecting case-insensitivity of the build 
> > filesystem at configure time to set FILENAMES_CASE_INSENSITIVE?
> 
> That's essentially what we're doing now, allbeit indirectly, so I expect
> it would work just as well.  I really wish case insensitive file systems
> would just go away.  :-)

I agree with you. We have some folks that insist on having both makefile
and Makefile files in the same directory and it makes it impossible for
folks with MacOS X boxes to use directly.

Of course, it is challenging to do an in-place build of cvs itself due
to the 'CVS' directory confusing the makefile target for the 'cvs'
executable... it becomes necessary to either do a build in a separte
repository or to set the EXEEXT macro on the command-line.

        Sigh,
        -- Mark