From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 11 15:59:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769D037BC24; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24922; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA68985; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005112259.PAA68985@vashon.polstra.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .s -> .S filename change in /sys In-Reply-To: <20000511103225.B5531@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000510151546.8ECC61CE6@overcee.netplex.com.au> <391A406B.3EBD0C57@softweyr.com> <200005111553.IAA67862@vashon.polstra.com> <20000511103225.B5531@dragon.nuxi.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20000511103225.B5531@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:53:24AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > I say again: the problem this mass renaming would address is (a) not > > very important and (b) solvable by other means. > > (a) I disagree. Well, that's why we're having this discussion. :-) > It has caused me pain in upgrading Bintuils. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to the best of my understanding it doesn't cause pain for a make world, or a normal kernel build, or anything that 99% of our users would ever want to do. That's why I said it's not very important -- hardly important enough to spam all those filenames. > (b) What is the way. I would think that you could work around it by modifying one of the *.bsd.mk files and/or the Makefile for whatever you're trying to build. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message