On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 01:39:53PM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
I wanted to attempt to build BIRD under MacOS X, but already at unpacking I ran into the following
tcsh> tar zxf bird-1.3.1.tar.gz tar: Cannot rename bird-1.3.1/Doc.naNlkt to bird-1.3.1/Doc (Is a directory) tcsh>
... which stems from the fact that the source tree contains both a "Doc/" subdirectory and a "doc/" directory,
tcsh> tar ztf bird-1.3.1.tar.gz | egrep -i 'bird-1.3.1/doc$' bird-1.3.1/doc bird-1.3.1/Doc tcsh>
which of course works just fine in most *nix file systems, since they traditionally are case sensitive. However, HFS(+) on the Mac can be installed either as case sensitive or as case INsensitive, with the latter being the default. (No, I don't advocate this! I just note that as a fact.) The result is of course a name clash on most Mac systems.
Is there any change that you can change one of the names to avoid the clash in future releases?
I think this is the least of possible problems. You could just delete Doc file, it is not needed for compilation. If a future release would work under MacOS X, we could fix problems with name clash, otherwise it is a bit pointless. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."