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; \ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org