mips64

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Erik Peterson <epeterson@mocana.com> writes:

> I have configured with the following  :
> 
> ../configure --host=mips64-octeon-linux-gnu --prefix=/opt/OCTEON-SDK/mocana/tools/gcc-3.4.0/target --enable-languages=c --target=mips64-octeon-linux-gnu

It may or may not help to add "--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu".

> What is genmodes

It reads the files mode-classes.def and machmodes.def and generates
the files insn-modes.c, insn-modes.h, and min-insn-modes.c.  The
latter files are then compiled into gcc itself.

> and should it be cross compiled?  

No.  It should be compiled to run on the build system.

> One note:  I did have to manually change some of the configure scripts
> from
>
> cross_compiling=no
> to
> cross_compiling=yes
>
> Could this be a problem?

It's fairly unlikely to do the right thing.

Ian