Re: glibc-2.2.93 successfully built on Alpha
Thanks for getting to this...my SX is choking on one of the testcases
(just sits there for hours).
C
On 18 Sep 2002, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built glibc-2.2.93 with CVS glibc-package without any problems on
> Alpha, and it seems to work OK (onlt tested briefly in a chroot.). The
> only problem is that the CVS dirs needed to be nuked, or they would
> end up in the .deb.
>
> I've also toyed with the idea of building optimized packages for
> certain architectures. IMHO, two extra ones would be sensible:
>
> * EV56
> * different scheduling
> * byte/word access instructions
>
> * EV6
> * different scheduling
> * wh64 instruction, yields large speedups on memcpy etc.
>
> (EV5, PCA56 and EV67 are IMHO not worth the trouble)
>
> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be support for the library loader
> to recognize the current architecture and extend the search path
> accordingly. Is there any documentation available for this? In
> particular, I cannot find where the tests for the actual hardware
> ought to be located.
>
> --
> Falk
>
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