Subject: Re: NetBSD source on case-retentive filesystems
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/28/2002 19:15:45
On 28 Jan 2002, Laine Stump wrote:

> Scott Hallock <scott@hallocks.net> writes:
>
> > For a variety of reasons best left undiscussed, I would like to be able
> > to check out NetBSD source onto a case-retentive (not case-sensitive)
> > filesystem (either HFS+ on Mac OS X or NTFS on Windows 2000), and then
> > move the checked-out source onto my NetBSD system at a later time.
>
> Don't forget that if you check files out onto a Windows system, all
> text files will be terminated with CRLF, and if you checkout onto a
> MAC, they will be CR-terminated. I seem to remember that make barfs on
> makefiles that aren't LF-terminated (or maybe I'm just remembering
> something completely incorrectly).

"make" barfs on files that are CRLF terminated. (I just ran into that
today.)

Frederick