[Mono-devel-list] RE: Windows problems

[Dick Porter]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 01:21, Agent Smith wrote:
> note on why mono-build-w32.sh failed :
> on line 49,
> cvs -z3 checkout mono || exit -1
> it bails if anything out of the ordinary occurs during the CVS checkout.
> It shouldn't be a problem for compiling, but this hiccup in the
> checkout stops the script promptly:

As it should.

> 
> U libgc/mips_sgi_mach_dep.S
> cvs checkout: move away mono/libgc/mips_sgi_mach_dep.s; it is in the way
> C libgc/mips_sgi_mach_dep.s
> [checkout continues but returns a nonfatal error code]

A file conflict is always a fatal error.

> Two files differentiated only by capitalization. :(
> Bad windows XP, bad NTFS.

File systems that cant hold two files that differ only in case sucked 20
years ago.

- Dick