From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ob] Check for linux-gnu* in linux-dp.exp
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 23:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050504232932.GA8605@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505042311.j44NBkRC031298@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:11:46AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:22:28 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> I built a mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64 toolchain and noticed that
> it didn't run this test
>
> There's nothing wrong with your patch, but what does
> mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64 mean? Is that just someone's local
> invention or is it really a canonical GNU system quadruplet? Is this
> what config.guess returns on a specific system?
It is not returned by config.guess. It's checked by glibc's configure
script, however - it means that the compiler (and options) being
configured with target an n64 environment rather than n32. It's the
result of a lot of arguing between Uli, Roland, and Alex Oliva - in
other words, not my fault :-)
Nothing but glibc cares. Everything is supposed to match for gnu*.
> It seems to me that there is something seriously wrong with canonical
> names for 64-bit Linux systems. The current situation seems to be
> that you can't really tell whether a Linux system is really 64-bit or
> just has a 64-bit kernel and is otherwise completely 32-bit. My SuSE
> 9.2 Athlon 64 desktop system seems to be fully 64-bit, but we also
> have a Debian-based Opteron cluster that's complete 32-bit. Yet on
> both systems config.guess returns x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
That's a problem with config.guess which I saw discussed on autoconf@
earlier today, and the poster was suggested to take it to
config.patches. It's a hard question what config.guess should return.
If you want it to return i686 instead, from a practical least-effort
point of view, use the 'linux32' wrapper program.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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2005-05-04 21:22 Daniel Jacobowitz
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