Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> writes:
> * Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [031209 17:16]:
> > Could. A i686 autobuilder (or a way to get the i386 to compile for a
> > different target) would be needed.
> >
> > Not sure how i484, i586, i686 debs are supposed to be build anyway?
>
> This may require a bit of debian/rules hacking. But since it's not been
> a problem for 99.99% of the packages (exceptions being glibc, mplayer,
> kernel, etc) we don't need to worry about these changes. The means are
> there... dpkg-architecture can very well return i686, but some packages
> may chose to ignore it.
>
> > There isn't realy any support to recompiled for a better arch. I guess
> > they would need a gcc wraper that adds -mcpu=i686 instead of our
> > -m32/64.
>
> Ideally I think this too could be handled by autoconf. configure
> --build and --conf options should be sufficient to let configure pick
> the right compiler. We may have to setup symlinks/wrappers to support
> 'linux-${arch}-gcc' and so on.
>
> I would like for gcc to build for the architecture specified by uname -m
> by default. It would be nice if that was done right in gcc and not a
> wrapper, as it is hacked to do now.
>
> B.
A -mcpu=host would be real great. The problem is that that would
require runtime checks otherwise if you compile gcc on i686 it would
break on i386.
MfG
Goswin
Reply to:
- References:
- Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
- Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
- Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Re: Ideas about the lib / lib64 names, subarchs, porting guidelines [Re: irc brainstorming notes]
- From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>