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Title: Mac/OSX/Makefile assumes case-insensitive build
Type: Stage:
Components: macOS Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: works for me
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Assigned To: jackjansen Nosy List: jackjansen
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Created on 2003-07-04 23:33 by jackjansen, last changed 2022-04-10 16:09 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg16883 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-04 23:33
Mac/OSX/Makefile doesn't work on a case-sensitive 
filesystem, because it assumes that python.exe exists. 
Here's a fragment of an email conversation on the topic:
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1) In the top level Makefile, BUILDEXE is set depending on 
whether the filesystem is case insensitive or not.  However, 
Mac/OSX/Makefile always assumes case-insensitivity, so 
there can be a conflict if python is built under Mac OS X on 
UFS or NFS.

This is unintentional. But: I don't have a UFS file system 
handy right now, and visual inspection
of Mac/OSX/Makefile hasn't revealed any obvious things. 
Could you elaborate? If all else fails send me the diff, after 
going through the release process.

Sorry I wasn't more clear.  It is the following line in Mac/
OSX/Makefile that is the problem:

BUILDPYTHON=$(builddir)/python.exe

This expects the top level Makefile to have added a .exe 
suffix, which would only happen if a case-insensitive 
filesystem was detected.
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msg16884 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-21 21:45
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I am at loss to why this problem still exists. On inspection it 
seems to be a duplicate of #677753, which was fixed 6 months 
ago, so the problem shouldn't have showed up in 2.3b2.

I will not fix this bug for 2.3, and try to find out what is going on.
msg16885 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2004-07-16 10:48
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Tried a build on a UFS filesystems and there were no problems: the 
toplevel Makefile communicates the correct BUILDPYTHON to Mac/OSX/
Makefile.
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2022-04-10 16:09:44adminsetgithub: 38795
2003-07-04 23:33:53jackjansencreate