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Re: Add hppa*64* support to libtool in binutils
- From: Jeff Law <law at porcupine dot slc dot redhat dot com>
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: ross dot alexander at uk dot neceur dot com, aoliva at redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils-owner at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libtool at sources dot redhat dot com, sje at cup dot hp dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:06:12 -0600
- Subject: Re: Add hppa*64* support to libtool in binutils
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <200208131836.g7DIaGFc028170@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>, "John David
Anglin" writes:
>That would be nice. Looking at config.guess, I think it needs to do
>a further check when HP_ARCH is found to be hppa2.0w using SC_CPU_VERSION
>and SC_KERNEL_BITS.
Those would certainly be good sanity checks as they'll tell us if the
build machine is capable of running 64bit binaries.
>Introducing the hppa64 arch wasn't a particularly great idea, but I don't
>see any simple way around it.
Well, it beats having folks get PA64 tools by accident on machines which
support 64bit binaries; the vast majority of developers don't need or want
PA64 tools.
For those select few that do care about large address spaces, it's a
relatively small amount of work to either ask for them explicitly by
the target name or by setting CC to an appropriate PA64 compiler before
running configure.
jeff