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SubjectRe: 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)?)
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.

Sam
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