Re: soft float on a hard flat capable machine ?

James Cowgill <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:43:09 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 10:30 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 2015-09-22 10:22 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <[email protected]>:
> > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 10:21 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > 2015-09-22 10:14 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <[email protected]>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 08:59 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > while building nodejs 4.1.0~dfsg-2 (not -3) it seems i can't enable
> > > > >   -D__mips_soft_float
> > > > > It errors out with [0]
> > > > >   gnu/stubs-o32_soft.h: No such file or directory
> > > > > Indeed, there is only one header in that directory.
> > > > > Is it not possible to enable soft float where hard float is available ?
> > > > > Is this a bug ?
> > > > 
> > > > On MIPS, soft-float and hard-float use totally incompatible ABIs so you
> > > > would need to recompile the toolchain to use it.
> > > 
> > > So does it imply that mips/mipsel architectures are hard-float ?
> > 
> > Yes
> > 
> 
> Ok then, shouldn't this be written somewhere ?
> 
> https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
> https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort

I've added it to the wiki page. Those pages don't get a lot of updates
though.

James

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