On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:25:32AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:54:20AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > Glen Johnson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > This is almost definitely because you're trying to compile on an HFS+ or 
> > HFS filesystem, which is case-insensitive.  I'm not certain whether 
> > build.sh under OS X works, but at the very least, you'd need to  do it 
> > on a UFS filesystem... it should be OK to use a mounted image from a file.
> 
> Don't bother with UFS, Apple's not keeping it up.

What's to keep up?  I run a UFS partition for my home directory
and pkg/pkgsrc, and it seems to work fine.

> Try case-sensitive HFS+. You can't use it for your root partition (both 
> because I don't know how to get the CD tools to make one and also because 
> MacOS X won't run on case-sensitive file systems - or didn't in 10.2), but 
> it will work with any other partition. Look at man newfs_hfs, especially 
> the '-s' option. I have pkgsrc on my laptop using it.

Thanks for the info: maybe I'll try that next time I do a
partition or lose a hard drive.  Is there any particular
advantage, other than being able to lose stuff in non-data
forks?

-- 
Andrew