Re: [PATCH] sim: tests: support .S files

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 15 March 2010 06:47:33 Matt Rice wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> not that I actually care about any such targets, but wouldn't this
> >> just fall over on a case insentive filesystem?
> > 
> > case insensitive is not the same thing as case preserving.  assuming
> > you're referring to the main ones (windows or OS X default), they're
> > both case preserving.  so files checked out as foo.s will stay as foo.s.
> >  the source code changes do string matches which have on relation at all
> > to the file system the files reside upon.
> > 
> > so no, i dont think this change will make any difference at all to such
> > systems.  otherwise you'd already see problems with the packages that
> > utilize source files based on extension case.
> > -mike
> 
> Actually, i was thinking about the case-preserving thing, refreshing
> my memory via google, pre-windows FAT filesystems (which i assume Eli
> is using since he's not using long file names) case-destroy to
> uppercase, which would just mean that they are pre-processing things
> which don't need to be.
> 
> 
> +           set comp_output [target_compile $sourcefile ${name}.s
> "preprocess" "incdir=$srcdir/$subdir"]
> 
> is it possible for ${name}.s and $sourcefile somehow clash on
> case-preserving case-insensitive filesystems when builddir==sourcedir?

i guess the only way to handle this then would be to pipe it directly to the 
assembler ...
-mike

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