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Re: Bootstrap with ia64-unknown-linux-gnu and --enable-targets=allfails
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:16:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bootstrap with ia64-unknown-linux-gnu and --enable-targets=allfails
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0310191151250.21957-100000@dair.pair.com>
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
>>
>> >From ld/configure.in:
>>
>> dnl FIXME: We will build a 64 bit BFD for a 64 bit host or a 64 bit
>> dnl target, and in those cases we should also build the 64 bit
>> dnl emulations.
>
> If you mean the FIXME implies the problem, I don't see how;
> according to it, things should work. (I think it's just
> supposed to point out that you need --enable-64-bit-bfd to get
> all emulations on a 32-bit host.) The problem is two lines
> below that; the code using "if test x${want64} = xtrue; then"
> should have used the same "case ${host64}-${target64}-${want64}
> in" construct as in bfd/configure.in.
ld/configure does not compute host64/target64, which is the problem
described in the FIXME.
Andreas.
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