Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269313AbUJQUfm (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:35:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269286AbUJQUcL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:32:11 -0400 Received: from relay.pair.com ([209.68.1.20]:18696 "HELO relay.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269289AbUJQUbJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:31:09 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.126.73.164 Message-ID: <4172C949.2020506@kegel.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:34:33 -0700 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert Cahalan CC: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Building on case-insensitive systems References: <1097989574.2674.14246.camel@cube> <4171F741.2070209@kegel.com> <1097991836.2666.14274.camel@cube> <20041017092730.GA9081@mars.ravnborg.org> <1098035748.2666.14288.camel@cube> <4172A8FD.8000401@kegel.com> <1098042896.2669.14306.camel@cube> In-Reply-To: <1098042896.2669.14306.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1329 Lines: 30 Albert Cahalan wrote: > Since MacOS can handle case-sensitive UFS filesystems, > and it has just been reported that Microsoft SFU also > supports being case-sensitive, the problem is solved. Not really; switching to UFS or to SFU (how often are two unrelated acronyms in the same sentence anagrams of each other?) is unpleasant for users accustomed to plain old MacOSX with HFS or Windows with Cygwin. (And politically speaking, SFU could be yanked by Microsoft at any time, whereas Cygwin will always be free, so I tend to support Cygwin and ignore SFU. I have a copy of SFU, though, and if somebody asks me to support it, I would reconsider. Nobody has yet.) But the .S/.s ambiguity can be worked around easily by building with 'make O=someotherdir', which is a good idea anyway, so I'm not too worried about it at the moment. (I'm more annoyed at ambiguities in source file names in netfilter; see https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-October/017145.html) - Dan -- Trying to get a job as a c++ developer? See http://kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html - 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/