Bug#1050429: musl: unusable on mipsel, mips64el: mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc: unrecognised command-line option '-EL'

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Control: severity -1 serious
thanks

Matthias Klose dixit:

> musl is not part of the standard toolchain, not even on mips64el.
> Please build your package with the default toolchain

This isn’t (just) an issue with a package build.

This bug manifests as follows:

As a user, I install musl-tools in order to be able to run
musl-gcc on some code I’m developing locally so it builds
against musl libc.

musl-gcc calls gcc with several options, including -EL.

gcc-12 has that option, gcc-13 doesn’t. gcc-13 documents,
however, to have this option:

│ 3.19.28 MIPS Options
│ --------------------
│
│ ‘-EB’
│      Generate big-endian code.
│
│ ‘-EL’
│      Generate little-endian code.  This is the default for ‘mips*el-*-*’
│      configurations.
[…]

So this is clearly a bug in gcc-13 and a regression against gcc-12.

bye,
//mirabilos
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