[fpc-devel] Compiling on OSX and case sensitive filesystems

[Jonas Maebe]

On 23 Aug 2007, at 00:35, Marc Weustink wrote:

>> Your issue is caused by the implementation of a directory cache in  
>> the compiler since 2.0.4, which for systems defined as case-aware  
>> did not keep track of the original file name casing. Your issue is  
>> probably fixed/worked around in 2.3.1, but that change will not be  
>> merged back to 2.1.5, because it was quite invasive. It will  
>> however be in 2.2.2
>
> OK, I can live with that. I'll stick to 2.0.4 on osx for a while then.

Please also test 2.3.1 to make sure it is actually fixed there. It  
was changed there for quite a different reason:
http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9172

Also note that it was not actually fixed in the revision mentioned in  
that bug report, I had to fix my changes twice before I got it right  
(which is one reason why I'm hesitant to merge it back).


Jonas