i use p9p under macos x too. i format the disk
with a case sensitive filesystem.

mind you, i think i must have used it with a case insensitive
filesystem before, and it just worked. i guess i didn't use
those troff font files.

cheers,
rog.

On Jan 31, 2008 10:40 AM, Christian Kellermann
wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I would like to use the p9p tools for Mac OS X. As stupid as its
> defaults are the filesystem is case insensitive. Therefore font
> files for troff conflict (namely Hb and HB, maybe others too). Is
> anyone on this list using p9p on Mac OS X? If yes, what's been our
> solution for this issue?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Christian
>
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* roger peppe [080131 12:29]:
> i use p9p under macos x too. i format the disk
> with a case sensitive filesystem.
>
> mind you, i think i must have used it with a case insensitive
> filesystem before, and it just worked. i guess i didn't use
> those troff font files.
>

I just noticed because I did a mercurial checkout and this is failing...

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> I would like to use the p9p tools for Mac OS X. As stupid as its
> defaults are the filesystem is case insensitive. Therefore font
> files for troff conflict (namely Hb and HB, maybe others too). Is
> anyone on this list using p9p on Mac OS X? If yes, what's been our
> solution for this issue?

Converting to a case-sensitive filesystem is a quick one-click
operation from disk utility that takes less than 2 minutes. I
recommend you switch to it to avoid any further issues.

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> I would like to use the p9p tools for Mac OS X. As stupid as its
> defaults are the filesystem is case insensitive. Therefore font
> files for troff conflict (namely Hb and HB, maybe others too). Is
> anyone on this list using p9p on Mac OS X? If yes, what's been our
> solution for this issue?

I've renamed the offending files. I expect no one
is using Helvetica Narrow anyway.

In general p9p tries to accomodate the widest possible
number of systems -- these are the only files with
case conflicts, I believe, so it is easier to work around
them than to force everyone to modify their system
configurations.

Please let me know if you run into any other case conflicts.

Russ

* Russ Cox [080131 14:30]:
> Please let me know if you run into any other case conflicts.

You missed at least one:
$ hg clone http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9 plan9
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2712 changesets with 15440 changes to 8264 files
abort: case-folding collision between troff/font/devutf/charlib/lH and troff/font/devutf/charlib/lh

And for converting the fs I thought you can only define the case
sensitivity at fs creation time...

Thanks Russ!

Christian

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I always have either a second partition formated case sensitive for
all real work, or create disk images with a case sensitive format. It
helps keep things honest enough (the same goes for Inferno and p9p and
anything not from OSX-only developers).