Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:47:07 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well |
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Herbert Poetzl wrote: >>The only .s/.S ambiguities that need resolving are intermediate files, >>so fixing them should only require changing a few Makefile rules. >>Let's wait and see what the patch looks like before we >>argue about it; maybe it will be simple to make everybody >>happy here (well, except those who hate the idea of >>letting anyone compile Linux kernels on Cgywin or MacOSX). > > > fair enough, but Mac OS X doesn't require this (UFS > is case sensititve, and probably no linux guy/gal uses > HFS+), so IMHO it's 'just' Cygwin* folks here ...
MacOSX uses HFS+ by default. As a result, 99% of people using MacOSX are going to use HFS+. I'm a serious Linux developer, but if I owned a Mac, I'd probably leave it set to HFS+, since I like to keep my systems vanilla (it makes it easier to pick up my stuff and use it on someone else's machine).
Thus it's not just Cygwin that's affected; this is a real issue for MacOSX as commonly configured. - Dan
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