building libgcj on HFS+ was:Re: MACOSX support

Fri Feb 21 06:11:00 GMT 2003

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>>As mentioned to Tom privately here the patch which fixed this about a 
>>year ago.
>>>>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-05/msg01556.html
>>> Two questions:
>> 1. How does this resolve the bugs related to the case-insensitivity
> of the filesystem? AFAIK, HFS is a case-insensitive filesystem,
> right?

Naively spoken, yes. I built it before on ufs since I got some funny 
build failures on hfs+. Changing to ufs helped. (about a year ago)
After this patch I moved back to ufs. And the build went fine.
Please bear in mind, we have here on MacOS two hfs versions, hfs and 
hfs+. The former, as written, I wouldn't recommend. The latter is the 
one we're speaking about.
>> 2. Could this partly explain why native builds on Windows are so
> slow (it doesn't have scandir( ) and alphasort( ), even in 
> libmingwex/libiberty)?

Don't know. The builds here are also very slow. This is due to different 
reasons. bash, filesystem...
Andreas