On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ruiz <chris_at_young-alumni.com> wrote: > On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: > >>> * Michael David Crawford <mdc_at_prgmr.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> A tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/pkill-t.t >>>> svn: In directory 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill' >>>> svn: Can't move source to dest >>>> svn: Can't move >>>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/tmp/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base' to >>>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base': No such >>>> file or directory >> >> Ed Schouten wrote: >>> >>> I guess this is yet another issue we're having with checking out our >>> source tree on case insensitive file systems. >> >> That was it! I should have guessed - it's bitten me before. [*] >> >> The workaround - again this is on Mac OS X - is to use Disk Utility to >> create a big enough disk image file, then after it has been initialized, >> reformat it with a case-sensitive filesystem. >> >> One has the choice of the Unix Filesystem or case-sensitive HFS+. HFS+ is >> case-insensitive by default; I think the case-sensitive option is only >> available in recent OS X versions. > > Actually, Case-sensitive HFS+ has been available since 10.3 (Panther), to > get such a volume you would need to select it from Disk Utility during the > install process. There is no conversion process other than reformatting. I > currently run 10.5 (and did so with 10.4 and 10.3) as Case-sensitive > Journaled HFS+ with no problems. I second this fact. The only unfortunate thing is that the majority of the time you need to reformat / repartition your disk, and optionally reinstall OSX if it wasn't the target disk. HTH, -GarrettReceived on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 04:42:31 UTC
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