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Re: 64-bit configure hell
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 24 Nov 2004 19:41:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: 64-bit configure hell
- References: <41A51487.7070006@apple.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:
Stan> This causes problems for some configure scripts, in particular
Stan> those in libstdc++ and libobjc, which want to be able to run
Stan> executables. It's not entirely clear to me why that's important,
Stan> since the libraries already build and run perfectly fine for
Stan> cross-compilers.
In the cross-compilation case target libraries make assumptions about
the target environment. When compiling natively the configure scripts
take advantage of this and run tests instead.
Stan> Although it would be good for sales to require that people
Stan> building GCC on Darwin upgrade to G5s :-) that's kind of
Stan> unfriendly, while producing different results from configure
Stan> and make depending on one's CPU is also just asking for
Stan> trouble. What other options do I have?
Make a note about --disable-multilib somewhere?
That isn't super friendly, but it is something.
Tom