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Re: multilibs

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: multilibs
From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 13:21:34 +1300
CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <200111021159.LAA21926@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> <3BE357A2.8000208@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> <jmitcro95n.fsf@geoffk.org>

Geoff Keating wrote:

>>Perhaps a solution would be to disable multilibs by default, at least 
>>for native targets? On powerpc-linux for example, soft-float multilibs 
>>get built even though there is no use for them - quite annoying when you 
>>forget to turn them off by hand. We could then perhaps have a 
>>configuration option to turn on specific multilibs for those who want them.
>>
>
>They're used for building the kernel.  Believe me, if they were
>unnecessary I'd have deleted them a long time ago.
>

I guess it should make a distinction between libgcc and the other target 
libraries, then? Presumably, no kernel needs a soft-float libstdc++ or 
libgcj, and these are the ones that take the most time to build.

Bryce.

References:
- Re: duplicate -mdisable-got with gcc-3.0
  - From: Richard Earnshaw
- multilibs
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: multilibs
  - From: Geoff Keating

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