MacOSX is lumbered with a case-insensitive file system by default and
the only way to fix this is to reformat it inbetween a dump and
restore. Nice.
Anyways, a case-insensitive HFS messes up some of the openssl man
pages for almost everyone using MacOSX. When the man pages are
installed, a few "master" man pages are created with file names in
upper case. Related man pages/file names on that topic are then
symlinked to these "masters". Finally a symlink is created for that
topic's file name in lower case. That removes the original file,
replacing it with a symlink which points to itself:
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 6 20 May 15:16 hmac.3 -> hmac.3
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 5 20 May 15:16 md5.3 -> md5.3
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 6 20 May 15:16 mdc2.3 -> mdc2.3
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 5 20 May 15:16 pem.3 -> pem.3
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 5 20 May 15:16 rc4.3 -> rc4.3
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 5 20 May 15:16 ssl.3 -> ssl.3
This then creates an infinite loop of symlinks. :-(
The quick and dirty kludge below to the Makefile sort of works around
the problem. But it's crude, crufty and ugly. And the start of a
slippery slope... Could this case sensitivity issue get fixed more
cleanly at some point? ie Fix the man pages and/or perl goop so they
don't cause case-sensitive symlinks to get generated. That would
eliminate the cruft of checking for case sensitivity in the
Makefile(s) (and elsewhere?). Thanks.
% diff -C 2 Makefile.jr Makefile
*** Makefile.jr Sun May 20 17:20:06 2012
--- Makefile Sun May 20 17:21:15 2012
***************
*** 645,649 ****
here="`pwd`"; \
filecase=; \
! if [ "$(PLATFORM)" = "DJGPP" -o "$(PLATFORM)" = "Cygwin" -o "$
(PLATFORM)" = "mingw" ]; then \
filecase=-i; \
fi; \
--- 645,653 ----
here="`pwd`"; \
filecase=; \
! if [ "$(PLATFORM)" = "DJGPP" \
! -o "$(PLATFORM)" = "Cygwin" \
! -o "$(PLATFORM)" = "mingw" \
! -o "$(PLATFORM)" = "darwin-ppc-cc" \
! -o "$(PLATFORM)" = "darwin-i386-cc" ]; then \
filecase=-i; \
fi; \
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