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 14:59

>> the AFLAGS_ instead.  Oh, and to go and rename a bunch of files in
>> netfilter :-( 
> 
> Been there.  Tried that.  Netfilter uses the case of filenames
> in its code at runtime (!).  You'd need to modify netfilter to use
> a different way of encoding state in filenames.  I was willing,
> but not if the netfilter people were going to refuse the patch.

  Actually, I'm not building that module, so just getting it to stop causing
conflicts in my cvs was all I needed!

>>   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.
> 
> Boy, you like pain, don't you? :-)
> 
> I repeat: if you must build the linux kernel under cygwin,
> use managed mode, and only look at that directory
> through cygwin (so you don't see the mangled names).
> Anything else and you're asking for trouble.

  What's so wrong with making use of the fact that NTFS can be made to
operate in a case-sensitive manner?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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