[OE-core] [PATCH] Introduce biarch DISTRO_FEATURE
Julian Pidancet
julian.pidancet at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 13:43:02 UTC 2011
On 11/08/11 20:29, Richard Purdie wrote:
>
> I'm left wondering how useful the resulting compiler is to most users.
> In most cases a user would expect full libc support and hence this is
> likely to confuse them. I do appreciate people do have usecases for a
> compiler that can handle the other bit format though.
>
Standard linux distros out there like debian or gentoo already ship a
biarch gcc per default. It wouldn't seem odd to me if OE had an option
to enable the generation of a biarch compiler.
> I think my biggest worry is the "--enable-targets=all" option which may
> or may not enable things we might not want enabled. I've not had a
> chance to go and look at gcc and convince myself that piece is safe. The
> other pieces looked less worrying.
>
In the patch, the --enable-targets=all is only active in the x86 case. I
did not find any other way of enabling both -m32 and -m64 switches in gcc.
I've been successfully using this patch to generate a complete x86 32bit
distro with a 64bit Xen hypervisor (I believe the result would have been
the same if I tried to compile a 64bit linux kernel). I did not have any
issues with it so far.
Cheers,
--
Julian
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