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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:47:07 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
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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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