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Re: Multilib and Linux.
- To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Multilib and Linux.
- From: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:03:35 +0100
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
>I don't think this is a big deal. For .o and .a files you just need to have
>two parallel toolchains, one set up as a cross-compiler, and keep the .o and
>.a files for that ABI contained in the appropriate directories. You probably
>need separate builds of gas, ld and so on in any case.
Thinking about it more, in fact what I wrote here is bogus even for the
existing ARM case, and this problem is another reason I haven't so far pursued
the idea much. I think the linker probably needs to be taught to modify its
search path based on the ABI in use.
p.