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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] On MIPS using the same CHOST for all multilib ABIs
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:39:51
Message-Id: 52E02C65.1010102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] On MIPS using the same CHOST for all multilib ABIs by "Michał Górny"
1 On 01/22/2014 02:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Dnia 2014-01-22, o godz. 09:24:55
3 > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >
5 >> 4) The debian debate about departing from GNU tuples (aka triplets) is here:
6 >>
7 >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664257
8 >> https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples
9 >> https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/TuplesAbandoned
10 >>
11 >> Their reasons are different than ours. The concern was over
12 >> i386/486/585/686 inconsistencies and arm hard/soft float. Regarding the
13 >> later issue, gcc upstream suggested using the vendor field which is what
14 >> we do for hard/soft arm.
15 >>
16 >> 5) My recommendation is that the safest thing is to use the vendor field
17 >> since it is recognized as "arbitrary". [...]
18 >
19 > Well, considering that it will fix the underlying issue, you have my
20 > blessing :). If you are going to put 'gentoo' there somehow, even +2.
21 >
22 Do you mean change the CHOST for each ABI to contain the abi name in the
23 vendor field? That should work...
24
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Markos Chandras

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Re: [gentoo-mips] On MIPS using the same CHOST for all multilib ABIs "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>