Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:00:24 +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 Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:57:29PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:40:24PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > >> 683 2328 27265 linux-2.6.8-build_on_case_insensitive_fs-1.patch > >> 28 122 1028 linux-2.6.8-noshared-kconfig.patch > > > >Can you please post these two patches. > >The fist I hope is very small today. > > OK, here they are, plus a third one that also seems neccessary: > > This one's by Martin Schaffner: > http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc37/patches/linux-2.6.8/linux-2.6.8-build_on_case_insensitive_fs.patch > Most of this is done in current linus-BK. I'm planning to handle asm-offset in another way and will then start to get rid of .S -> .s
> This one's by Kevin Hilman. I haven't tried it yet, but seems neccessary: > http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/linux-2.6.8-netfilter-case-insensitive.patch > This should be taken with the netfilter people.
> Both of the above choose arbitrary ways to avoid using > filenames identical but for case. Feel free to pick > some other way, there's nothing magic about the names we picked. > > This one's after an idea by bertrand.marquis@sysgo.com, > but it's small enough to be considered trivial. Many OS's > don't support shared libraries as easily as Linux does, > and there's nothing to be gained by making libkconfig shared, so don't. > http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc37/patches/linux-2.6.8/linux-2.6.8-noshared-kconfig.patch >
I will give this a try - and apply if I see no problems.
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