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)?)

[Russell King]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:00:24PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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

Converting .S -> .s is useful for debugging - please don't cripple the
kernel developers just because some filesystems are case-challenged.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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