Re: [avr-chat] Re: WinAvr 2005... compile problems

[Joerg Wunsch]

"Dave Hylands" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'll give you a couple that bug me:

(I should have added in my original message that I merely made the
statement for the code we are talking about here, i.e. microcontroller
and related stuff.)

> 1 - glibc (cross compiling under Windows for an embedded linux
> system) I can't remember the exact problem, but it was something
> like having *.os files and *.OS files

That's a corner case.  While this could have been avoided for certain,
I don't think anyone ever considered a non-Unix host platform would be
used for cross-development for this library.  You should probably use
the Windows Posix extensions for that kind of work ;-) (which is a
nice example to demonstrate that it's not the file system itself that
is case-insensitive but rather the syscall layer applied on top of
it).

> 2 - the linux kernel, in particular the netfilter stuff (also
> cross-compiling for an embedded linux system).  It has files like:
> ipt_tcpmss.c and ipt_TCPMSS.c which are different.

That's already where I think the ``in his right mind'' clause I made
would apply. ;-)

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