On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > Another question is where exactly do we stand with OS/X right now? > > Apple HFS+ is still not supported, there exists a forced lower-case > canonicalization hack authored by Apple, but AFAICT still no progress > on retrieving the true name of a file on a case-insensitive OS/X > volume which I suspect are still in common use on most OS/X boxen. > Of course, all the BSD-based file systems are strict case sensitive > and don't have security bypass issues when running 'vanilla' httpd.
Can't speak to this, it's not important to my use since I avoid the case sensitivity issues on OS X. I've had no problems building httpd on OS/X on 10.7 (I haven't bothered to upgrade to 10.8). I do a fair amount of work on OS X directly and often build httpd-trunk and releases with debugging. There may be computability issues like you pointed out above, but I quite frankly have never noticed them. Granted my use of httpd on OS X is purely developmental and I likely wouldn't run into the types of issues that someone using httpd for production servers on OS X would. > Also wondering where the OS/X download lives? It will build on any > OS/X box with a deployed toolchain, but I imagine many OS/X users > don't install that toolchain and live with the Apple provided > flavors, and would guess that 2.4.x is not part of that Apple OS > distributions so far. I've never bothered to try to download a httpd binary build, it's easy enough to build that I don't feel the need. 10.7 still had httpd 2.2, not sure what 2.4 has.
