Alistair Crooks wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Adam Hoka wrote: > > It also breaks pkgsrc tree on SMB/CIFS even when its not read only. > > Or on every other FS which does not support symlinks. > > You have a pkgsrc tree on an SMB file system? Excellent. Can you tell > us the other problems you ran into, please? The case-insensitivity did not cause any problem as it seemed, so that part was OK. Building on SMB was impossible because there is no symlink support, but setting WRKOBJDIR to a suitable file system made it work all right. I use this on HP-UX because I have limited space on that box. > Which other file systems don't support symbolic links, and yet have > flex file names (necessary for some of the patch file names)? We support a lot of platforms so we shouldn't make assumptions. Why break something when we don't have to? > Regards, > Alistair -- Adam
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