RE: Cygwin and crosstool! (vmlinux.lds.asm problem with 2.6.12.5 case-insensitive build patch from crosstool)

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Dan Kegel
>Sent: 26 August 2005 04:45

> Dave Korn wrote:
>>   I've found a slight problem with the patch from crosstool for
>> compiling on a case-insensitive filesystem
>>
(http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.38/patches/linux-2.6.8/linux-2.6
>> .8-build_on_case_insensitive_fs.patch 
> 
> Not surprising.  The maintainers of the affected parts of the
> kernel refuse to support case insensitive filesystems.

  They're within their rights I suppose, it's not posix compliant.  Anyway,
I've got an effective enough workaround, which is just to use the AFLAGS_
instead.  Oh, and to go and rename a bunch of files in netfilter :-(

> You should probably not use that patch for real kernel work.
> Instead, if you're stuck on cygwin, mount a directory
> in managed (i.e. case sensitive) mode for building the
> kernel; then you don't need the patch.

  Yeh, that's a better option long-term.  I'm not so happy with the mangled
names and the overhead though, but fortunately I just discovered
FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS, so I can always throw something together.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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