Re: config & endianness

"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>   
>> But I think the .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} logic you suggested above will help
>> with this.  I hope so anyway.  Stay tuned, because I *will* be adding
>> ath support for the Atheros AR5312 kernel configs when I add them. 
>>     
>
> I doubt current config(9) supports such conditional statements
> by environments or something else.
>
> I'm afraid you have to have both mipsel/mipseb config files
> for bi-endian boards, which include either files.evbmips-el or
> files.evbmips-eb that has proper "object /athhal-mips*-elf.o" lines.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>   
Good point.  I was confusing Makefiles and config.

Aargh what a pain in the neck.

I think this is a sign that config should grow some awareness of the
target architecture being configured.

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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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