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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