[NEW BUG]: Configure broken on MIPS (original) (raw)

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Mar 23 09:54:40 UTC 2018

On 2018-03-23 09:55, David Holmes wrote:

On 23/03/2018 6:46 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:

On 2018-03-23 06:22, David Holmes wrote: Hi Thomas,

On 23/03/2018 2:55 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Hi David,

would it not be pragmatic to accept Ao's patch - it looks fine to me - since it certainly would not make matters worse. And let Magnus follow up with a cleanup change later? Well I hope Magnus's change is forthcoming. It might be some time still. I'm working on a complete overhaul of all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, where this is a part of that picture, but I was not planning on addressing just this thing urgently. So, I think this patch will do for now. It solves the immediate problem for MIPS, and I can come back and make a cleaner solution later on. Isn't the best quick fix one that only adds -m64 for x86? I recall  a report that arm32 is similarly broken. Not really, because this is also needed on some other platforms, at least s390x, as I recall. (This was the reason it was originally added.)

/Magnus

David -----

AFAICS it's as easy to write this only for x86 as it is to exclude it for non x86. Honestly I don't know why the Aarch64 patch was done the way it was - there must be some subtlety here that I'm not aware of. I think it was just the smallest patch that worked for the aarch64 platform. I didn't spend time arguing about the fix, since it is supposed to be short-lived anyway. /Magnus

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