Eclipse project not built on Mac due to 'A resource exists with a different case' error

Question

I am trying to following instructions to import android java source to eclipse on mac:

http://source.android.com/source/using-eclipse.html

I did create a new partition ('Mac OS Extended, case sensitive, journaled) on Mac. I was able to build android sdk successfully at command line.

But when I try to create a new eclipse project and I get this error which prevents eclipse from building the android source:

The project was not built due to "A resource exists with a different
case: '/android/out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/
android_stubs_current_intermediates/classes/MANIFEST.mf'.". 
Fix the problem, then try refreshing this project and building it since it may
be inconsistent android

Can you please tell me how can to fix my problem?

Answer 1

I just ran into this issue. It occurs when you have a case mismatch on package names. I resolved it by closing Eclipse and reconciling all package names in my project folder (under bin, gen and src) as well as in my AndroidManifest.xml. Once everything matched, I reopened Eclipse, did a Clean and Build and the error went away.

Answer 2

I encountered this problem when I had 2 seperate packages with different case defined in same project

src/main -> com.mycompany.project.DAO

src/test > com.mycompany.project.dao

Actually the 2nd package was for JUnit test cases & should not have been on build path. When I removed the 2nd package from build path (rightclick src/test -> remove from build path), this error was gone.