Re: mips(el) n32 and n64 host triplet

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:45:13AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:43:50PM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > I gave it some thought. Currently we only have mips64{,el}-linux-gnu,
> > which, to make matters worse, defaults to a n32 compiler with
> > multilibed o32/n32/n64 libraries. IMHO the best thing to do is to
> > introduce a completely separate set of triplets for the more advanced
> > single-ABI mips configurations. E.g:
> > 
> > mipsn32-linux-gnu
> > mipsn32el-linux-gnu
> > mipsn64-linux-gnu
> > mipsn64el-linux-gnu
> > 
> > The distinction between mips64 and mips_n_64 is a bit subtle, but
> > I don't see a better way while keeping the scheme relatively simple.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> There are already triplets for this ;-)  Take a look at the glibc
> configuration; I believe you'd want mips64-linux-gnuabi64 et al.

Um. Actually, I'd like not to have mips64-linux-gnuabi32, but rather
a convention which is acceptable over the whole toolchain.

Btw, the 'kern64' in that preconfigure looks like a bug, but appears
to be unused.


Thiemo