MacPorts' cvs does not honor case-sensitivity of FS

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Fri Nov 7 09:14:54 PST 2014


On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kahari at bils.se> wrote:

> I solved this for myself by reconfiguring the cvs sources with “--enable-case-sensitivity”. It’s the build filesystem that matters for this port, not the repository nor checkout filesystems.
> 
> If I knew how to properly add a “casesensitive” variant for this port, I would propose one.

Does case-sensitive CVS work normally on case-insensitive filesystems also? If so, I don't see why we shouldn't just add that flag unconditionally.

vq


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