[oe] "armv6" override not used

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,

Phil Blundell schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:57 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
>> Is that such a controversial feature? I think this should be part of all
>> distros.
>>
>> Without this libffi breaks (on armv6 and arm7a) and in the future this
>> means that stuff like openjdk won't be buildable on these arches. :(
> 
> Why exactly is this override required?  It seems a bit sad that these
> packages need to be fed a special "-DMAKE_ME_WORK" flag by some external
> intelligence in order to build on newer architectures.  Can't they
> figure it out for themselves?
it is related to GCC: Although -mfloat-abi=vfp is given __SOFTFP__ is
not defined and that is required for libffi because otherwise the sysv.S
assembler file uses instructions not available any more on armv6/armv7.

Regards
Robert

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