Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261239AbUJPTAY (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:00:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261474AbUJPTAY (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:00:24 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:48970 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261239AbUJPTAW (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:00:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:00:24 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Dan Kegel Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis 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)?) Message-ID: <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Kegel , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis References: <414FC41B.7080102@kegel.com> <58517.194.237.142.24.1095763849.squirrel@194.237.142.24> <4164DAC9.8080701@kegel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4164DAC9.8080701@kegel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1792 Lines: 41 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. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/