Re: Crosscompiling with autobild

[Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:52:11AM +0200, Jakov af Wallby wrote:
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> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if the debian package autobuilder can crosscompile to m68k?
> 
> On the linux-m68k list (with the m68k kernel hackers) the issue
> of supporting the faulty MC68040 that can't handle floating point
> emulation has come up a few times.
> It turnes out the only way to support it is to compile all binaries
> with soft-float.

afaik soft-float does nothing reasonable itself, on linux-m68k it 
generates library calls that call the FPU instructions themselves.
If that doesn't make much sense to you - you are probably not
alone ;)
You would need to write the library first.


Bye
Richard