Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:04:27 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well (was: Re: 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)?) |
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 08:40:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:24:40PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 08:06:27PM +0100, Russell King 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.
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