Re: [hosers-talk] building nmh -- resolved

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> The problem I had with building nmh was simple: Apple's HFS+ file system 
> is case preserving yet case insensitive. Thus, make thought the install 
> target was up to date because of the existence of the file INSTALL -- yes, 
> the installation instructions. Problem was solved by a simple file rename, 
> although the nmh folks are probably going to resolve the issue with some 
> makefile hackery.

Wow, of the four possible combinations of case preservation and case
sensitivity Apple picked the worst one. Glad you figured that out; I don't
know anything about Mac-specific stuff.

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