[WAY OT]: need a windows-based PPC cross-compiler
Daniel Kegel
dank@kegel.com
Wed Apr 20 18:29:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Daniel Kegel wrote:
>
>
>>BTW there are known issues building the kernel on cygwin
>>and other case-insensitive systems:
>>1. .s and .S source file suffices mean different things; .S needs preprocessing, .s doesn't.
>> This is fixable, but might be a bit painful.
>>2. netfilter has files named foo_BLAH.h and foo_blah.h that represent
>> different states in their state machines.
>> See https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-October/017145.html
>> They refuse to change this.
>> If you use netfilter in your kernel, you will run into trouble
>> with cygwin as a dev environment.
>
>
> You can also try Cygwin's managed mount. It supports case sensitivity
> as well as use of all the reserved words. E.g. if you had a source file
> named con.c, it's impossible to create under win32 normally, but
> possible with managed mounts.
Thanks for the tip. I gather mount on cygwin now takes a "-o managed" option
for when you really need more posixy semantics, that's great.
I'll add that to the crosstool doc when I get a chance.
- Dan
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