Re: Some packages (finally)
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 07:55:18AM -0400, Ulf Carlsson wrote:
> I think the convention is:
>
> mips = big endian
> mipsel = little endian
>
> These packages I've built are for big endian MIPS machines. Maybe I should have
> compiled for both mips and mipsel, so that we can get two ports. It wouldn't be
> much problem to build mipsel at the same time as I build mips, I'd just have to
> type dpkg-buildpackage one more time. I have to compile new set of glibc, egcs
> and binutils first though. It would be pointless to have one person working on
> mips and one person on mipsel. We would probably have to make the same changes,
> thus duplicating work.
> I would have to tweak a some things to make dpkg-buildpackage -a build the
> packages to have the name mipseb (since the tools have the prefix mips-linux and
> not mipseb-linux) but if you have a nice solution and find it necessary, I can
> certainly change it.
Hmmm - ok - i thought it had been mipseb
Currently it seems our work is incompatible as i have decstations
which are pure little endian ...
Flo
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