Re: Gcc 3.2 64-bit mode on Sparc?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:20:42AM -0500, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 64bit itself is not broken on Debian. The part that we have trouble with
> > is very fine grained. Dpkg selects architecture based on gcc's target.
> > For us, even on sparc64, that is "sparc-linux".
> >
> > However, if we want to enable 64bit support, we have to use (by default)
> > "sparc64-linux". We can't have that. So I have a patch (from 2.95.x)
> > that enabled this.
> >
> > Matthias, I'll get this tonight. I now have an extra ultrasparc to do
> > glibc/gcc testing on.
>
> Thanks for piping up. After Mathias' message, I downloaded the
> gcc-3.2 source code from ftp.debian.org, unpacked it and applied the
> Debian patch. After building it, I could verify that it only builds
> the 32-bit version. I then cleaned out the build and did my own
> './configure sparc64-linux' in the GCC source directory and built
> again. This time, it builds a version that accepts both -m64 and
> -m32. Perhaps your patch makes sure that -m32 is default? Anyway,
> just wanted to verify your observations.
I have this compiling correctly now. Once I get it so that the packages
build correctly (IOW, including the 64bit libs), I'll commit my changes
to the gcc-3.2 Debian CVS.
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