Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] install_qa_check() for hppa64 and ia64-hpux

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 14 July 2009 04:40:14 Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> have noticed that the "Evaluating misc gcc warnings" QA check does not
> know about "hppa64" cpu in bin/misc-functions.sh:
> alpha*|hppa64*|ia64*|powerpc64*|mips64*|sparc64*|sparcv9*|x86_64*)
> gentoo_bug=yes ;; esac

looks fine to me -- feel free to add it.  or if you cant, i can throw it in if 
people dont beat me to it.

> This was while I was looking why this check blocked merging of gcc-4.3.3
> on the 32bit platform CHOST=ia64-hp-hpux* due to:
>         warning: implicit declaration of function 'strtok_r'
>
> Yes, ia64-hp-hpux* is a multilib platform with 32bit default - the 64bit
> default would have CHOST=ia64w-hp-hpux*.

the hpux guys created their own 32bit ia64 ELF ABI !?  or they're using x86 
emulation ?  both are wicked stupid ...

> As we do not do multilib in Prefix, "ia64-hp-hpux*" is 32bit, and I want
> to hear your thoughts about this additional line there:
>             case ${CHOST} in
>         +      ia64-hp-hpux*) ;; # multilib with 32bit default, 64bit is
> ia64w-hp-hpux*
> alpha*|hppa64*|ia64*|powerpc64*|mips64*|sparc64*|sparcv9*|x86_64*)
> gentoo_bug=yes ;; esac
>
> Note that each of these are multilib with 32bit default too, although
> there is no "64" in the 32bit CHOST:
> sparc-*-solaris*  (sparc64-*-solaris*)
> i386-*-solaris*   (x86_64-*-solaris*)
> powerpc-ibm-aix*  (powerpc64-ibm-aix*)

the check is to catch the majority of users, and it does.  i dont want to go 
down this rabbit hole.  about we just fix the source code in question and call 
it a day.
-mike