Re: Failure to build "evbarm" release?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 21,  3:15pm, maya%netbsd.org@localhost (maya%netbsd.org@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Failure to build "evbarm" release?

| On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:21:06AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
| > maya%netbsd.org@localhost writes:
| > 
| > > I object to harming the usability of netbsd to support this use case.
| > 
| > My impression is that we have a long history of supporting building on
| > case-preserving (but not case sensitive) filesystems.  Besides that,
| > having files that differ only in case is confusing to humans.   So
| > without opining on the right fix, it seems like we should get back to
| > allowing case-preserving building.
| 
| Manual pages for library functions are named after the function names
| and that is the only way to look them up. There is no alternate naming
| policy.

There is precedence moving the openssl functions to openssl_ where they
conflict (amongst themselves in this case :-):

https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/crypto/external/bsd/openssl/lib/libcrypto/man/Makefile#50

| The choice of function names was done by the two people proposing to
| remove arbitrary documentation right now.

We have made a many compromises before to allow building in
case-preserving/case-insensitive systems.

Another way to "fix" this particular problem (but one that does
not work in general) is to teach mkfs to read input from tar files
instead of the filesystem...

christos