Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266117AbUJQQ53 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:57:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269193AbUJQQ52 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:57:28 -0400 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:27624 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266117AbUJQQ5T (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:57:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:57:18 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Dan Kegel , 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: <20041017165718.GB23525@mail.13thfloor.at> 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> <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041016200627.A20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20041016212440.GA8765@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041016204001.B20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20041016220427.GE8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041016220427.GE8765@mars.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1927 Lines: 48 On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:04:27AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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. hmm, maybe because they expect the output of the preprocessed assembly code to have the prefix .s instead of .asm (see gcc man page and play with gcc -S) GCC(1) GNU Tools GCC(1) .s Assembler source; assemble .S Assembler source; preprocess, assemble best, Herbert > > 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/ - 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/