Re: [parisc-linux] linux32 personality & config.guess

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:11:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.ports.hppa
Organization wh0rd.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, John David Anglin wrote:
> With respect to hppa variants, this is a hopeless mess and I don't
> believe this can be fixed.  For example, libgmp treats hppa2.0w as
> indicating a 64-bit runtime.  I'm sure you have hit this.

i think gmp is just plain broken in this respect

> Nominally, the first part of the target string represents the
> architecture of the kernel, and not the userspace architecture.
> This is not sufficient to configure runtime applications when multiple
> architectures are supported by one kernel.

i'm not terribly familiar with the breadth of the parisc family, but isnt 
64bit only available with 2.0 ?  so it'd be pretty clean on Linux to say: 
hppa64-*-linux-* means 64bit userland, everything else is 32bit
-mike
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