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Re: Add hppa*64* support to libtool in binutils
- From: Jeff Law <law at porcupine dot slc dot redhat dot com>
- To: ross dot alexander at uk dot neceur dot com
- Cc: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, aoliva at redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils-owner at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, sje at cup dot hp dot com, libtool at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:50:16 -0600
- Subject: Re: Add hppa*64* support to libtool in binutils
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <OFA15CDC33.853DE7E3-ON80256C05.0038EA84@uk.neceur.com>, ross.alexan
der@uk.neceur.com writes:
>
>David,
>
>I'm currently looking at revising libtool-1.4e to add HPUX64 support. I've
>got a
>couple of questions.
>
>1) Should the mode be determined from $cpu_host or by checking __LP64__
>in the cc defines. Given that the config.guess returns
>hppa2.0w-hp-hpux??.??
>and we assume that is 32bit then do we assume the user knows what they
>are doing and assume they only want 64bit when the target is hpux64.
>Should libtool check that they match correctly.
We certainly don't want to go into 64bit mode unless it's explicitly been
asked for. If you can actually run the compiler, then checking for
__LP64__ should get you this information. Alternately if you can't run
the compiler, go into 64bit mode for hppa64-*-* configurations only.
jeff