Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:42:21AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >>>>>Converting .S -> .s is useful for debugging - please don't cripple the
> >>>>>kernel developers just because some filesystems are case-challenged.
> >>>>
> >>>>Does the debug tools rely on files named *.s then?
> >>>>
> >>>>There are today ~1400 files named *.S in the tree, but none named *.s.
> >>>>So my idea was to do it like:
> >>>>*.S => *.asm => *.o
> >>>>But if this breaks some debugging tools I would like to know.
> >>>
> >>>*.asm is nonstanard naming.  If we have to support case-challenged
> >>>filesystems, please ensure that the rest of the nonbroken world can
> >>>continue as they have done for the last few decades and live happily
> >>>unaffected by these problems.
> >>
> >>I still do not see how a kernel developer are affected by changing
> >>the extension of an intermidiate file - please explain.
> >
> >hmm, maybe because they expect the output of the
> >preprocessed assembly code to have the prefix .s
> >instead of .asm (see gcc man page and play with
> >gcc -S)
> 
> The only .s/.S ambiguities that need resolving are intermediate files,
> so fixing them should only require changing a few Makefile rules.
> Let's wait and see what the patch looks like before we
> argue about it; maybe it will be simple to make everybody
> happy here (well, except those who hate the idea of
> letting anyone compile Linux kernels on Cgywin or MacOSX).

fair enough, but Mac OS X doesn't require this (UFS
is case sensititve, and probably no linux guy/gal uses 
HFS+), so IMHO it's 'just' Cygwin* folks here ...

best,
Herbert

> - Dan
> 
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