That would still be hacking around the problem. We have to face the fact that MacOS X supports both a case-sensitive and case-insensitive file system. This means we should have some mechanism to allow for a Files list with foobar on case-insensitive and foobar/fooBar on case sensitive.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:28:03PM -0300, monipol wrote: > On 20/06/2009, at 18:48, Jack Howarth wrote: >> I have been looking at adjusting the openmpi >> package to allow it to build and install on >> case-sensitive HFS filesystems. I am stuck on >> how to properly steer mpiCC into the openmpi-dev >> Files list without breaking the build on the >> standard HFS filesystem. Perhaps we need some >> way of flagging files that only are to be >> packaged if the filesystem is case sensitive? > [...] > > Any chance upstream might help with that? Have they been contacted? Are > they willing to fix that? > > Any chance of patching the Makefiles so that two files with same case- > sensitive names are created with two different case-sensitive names, > such as > > bin/mpicc > bin/mpiCC_uppercase > > or something similar? Maybe a (shorter) prefix or suffix, or a different > hierarchy. Not sure how much breakage that would incur though. In theory > other Fink packages can be patched to use these prefixed or suffixed file > names. > > > Cheers, > > -- > monipol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
