In article <drfin1$eh$1@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk>,
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:
>In article <drb4si$mm4$1@sea.gmane.org>,
>	christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>> We would like to be able to cross-build on "case preserving/case insensitive"
>> filesystems, so if you find problems, please send-pr.
>
>I think that is a lost cause.  You cannot even checkout the sources to
>case insensitive filesystem because of the conflict between
>"src/gnu/dist/CVS" and "src/gnu/dist/cvs".
>
>"pkgsrc" has similar problems while "/usr/pkg" and "/var/db/pkg*" can
>happily reside on a case insensitive filesystem. I solved that on my
>Mac OS X system by NFS mounting "pkgsrc" from the NetBSD server.
>

If it is only CVS that is causing the problem, we could try to fix it
by moving CVS to xcvs in current.

christos