[Interest] "Specified path differs in case from file name on disk" when building from source on OSX

[Konstantin Tokarev]

> Uau…
> 
> This one was tricky. The problem was precisely that!
> 
> I entered in the directory with cd qt, but the dir is actually called Qt. I can’t recall this being allowed on unix filesystems. Maybe because of Z bash that I’m using? Not sure!

HFS+ can use case-insensitive or case-sensitive mode. By default macOS creates case-insensitive partitions, and you see this in action.

> 
> Thanks Thiago for your keen eye and reply!!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nuno
> 
>> On 2 Nov 2017, at 21:36, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On quinta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2017 14:15:17 PDT Nuno Santos wrote:
>>
>>> :1:10: warning: non-portable path to file
>>> :'"../../../../../../Qt/5.10.0/src/qtbase/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h"';
>>> :specified path differs in
>>
>> What's the actual file path of that file?
>>
>> My guess is that the problem is the "Q" in "Qt", which makes this a mistake in
>> your passing of the path to configure.
>>
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>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>> Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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