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

[Michael Corcoran]

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 01:42 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Likewise for APFS. I've been tempted to setup a case-senstive VM just
to see how much stuff would break! I suspect a few things that support
Windows/macOS only.

> > 
> > Thanks Thiago for your keen eye and reply!!
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Nuno
> > 
> > > On 2 Nov 2017, at 21:36, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.c
> > > om> 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/qg
> > > > lobal.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.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
> > > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > > 
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