Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#30040 new enhancement
Allow case-sensitive build roots
| Reported by: | jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia) | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Some ports have trouble building on case insensitive file systems (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63948). It would be nice if the workpath could be configured to be a dmg which could be case sensitive.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Type: | defect → enhancement |
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I would say it is a bad idea to try to build on a filesystem with one case sensitivity and then install to a filesystem with a different case sensitivity. We had a user who had created such a situation by making /opt/local/var/macports/build a symlink to a different filesystem, and odd problems resulted. So if you want to test case-sensitive builds, the entire MacPorts installation should be on a case-sensitive filesystem. I have successfully installed MacPorts to a case-sensitive disk image to test this before.