> > I'm not entirely sure what to do about this problem. Unfortunately it's
> > not just catlib as we have two cases in our own libraries (well, at least
> > we can fix those more easily I guess)...
>
> I think this is my problem, since it's me (or rather autoastrom) which
> needs catlib, and I've got a shiny new Mac to work this out on.
Excellent news (well, for me at least!)...
> One solution is to format a smallish partition as UFS rather than HFS+,
> and build things there. The compiled results would still work on a
> stock OSX box, and it's only OSX folk who want to build things who'd
> have to be warned about this. And they probably know about it anyway.
Yes, but! It'd be "nice" to be able to do a stock CVS checkout and build
it on MacOS, mucking about with UFS partitions isn't really an elegant
solution (although it had occured to me).
> The problems in our own libraries we should sort out. Telling folk
> they have to use a specific filesystem to build catlib is one thing,
> but our own software we should tidy up.
Yes, indeed!
Al.
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