[oe] [PATCH 0/3] Make multi-machine toolchains to co-exist.

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:10 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> > And cacao:
>> >
>> > | configure: error: armv7a systems are not supported at this time
>> > | ERROR: Function do_configure failed
>> >
>> >> yes I was expecting that kind of problems. openssl also has similar issues.
>> >
>> >> another idea that struck me was that we could change the target triplet to drop
>> >> TARGET_VENDOR and replace it with TARGET_SUB_ARCH and TARGET_SUBARCH
>> >> could be anything
>> >> we could even make it same as MACHINE_ARCH which means you will build
>> >> toolchain per machine
>> >> and they will live together.
>> >
>> >> then the tool names will be something like arm-v7-linux-gnueabi-*
>> >> powerpc-e500-linux-gnu
>> >> mips-mips2-linux etc. instead of *-angstrom-*- or *-oe-*-
>> >
>> >> or arm-beagleboad-linux-gnueabi-* etc if we go with MACHINE_ARCH
>> >
>> >> that would keep all recipe configury happy as the arch detected from
>> >> config.guess will be what
>> >> we had (arm, mips, mipsel powerpc etc) so no changes needed but we
>> >> will have to drop the brand
>> >
>> >> does it sound good ? bad?
>>
>> I don't think abusing target vendor for that is a good idea. And I'm
>> quite attached to my angstrom branded toolchains, tbh.
>
> Note that you can still append your angstrom string to the vendor part
> of the triplet...

arm-v7_angstrom-linux-gnueabi-  etc. is a possibility

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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