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Subject: RE: glibc cross-compilation: file names problems
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:09:04 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Fabrice Gautier" <gautier AT email DOT enst DOT fr>, <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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Cygwin depends on the windows file system interface, which is case
preserving, as opposed to case sensitive.

While you might be able to design a reversible name mangling system that
cygwin could use, I doubt it would be a) very efficient or b) easy to
implement without opening a can of worms.

So you are correct the solution is to fix the glibc makefiles.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabrice Gautier [mailto:gautier AT email DOT enst DOT fr]
> Sent: Friday, 2 February 2001 10:53 AM
> To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject: glibc cross-compilation: file names problems
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to cross compile glibc from cygwin but I ran into 
> some errors.
> 
> i've trackeed the error done to a file name problem:
> Glibc uses *.oS and *.os temporary files during the build 
> (for 's'hared
> and 'S'tatic objects)
> 
> But with cygwin this files are the same, so things are not going well.
> 
> I think the only solution is to change glibc makefiles, but is this a
> "classic" problem that people run into when trying to port programs to
> cygwin? Is there eventually a way to force Windows to accept two
> filename identical except for the case?
> 
> (please note : i'm not trying to "port" glibc for cygwin, i'm 
> just trying
> to cross compile it)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Fabrice Gautier <gautier AT email DOT enstfr>
> 
> 
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