Re: SH Linux: remove big endian multilib

["M. R. Brown" <mrbrown at 0xd6 dot org>]

* Andrew Haley <aph@cambridge.redhat.com> on Mon, Jul 30, 2001:

> 
> No.  The top level build of gcc on an SH Linux system (i.e. SH3,
> little endian) does not work at the present time.  The user should not
> have to create big endian versions of glibc in order to configure and
> build gcc.
>

It's worked from CVS snapshots for me since May (and before then), on SH4
little-endian targets.  But only using the patches that add the
sh[34]-linux-* targets that disable multilib.  I'm not in total agreement
of using the sh[34] notation, but that's what I needed to build glibc and
full gcc, and it worked.

> There's no reason not to add more targets, but
> 
> a.  The top level build of gcc *must* build, and
> 
> b.  It should have a sensible default configuration.  At present, SH
> Linux targets a SH3 and little endian, so gcc should do the same.
> 

IMHO, the developer should be able to specify the defaults of what gcc
should target, just like you would for Mips.  BTW, SH Linux doesn't just
run on SH3/little-endian, it runs on SH4's and supports big-endian byte
ordering.

M. R.