Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:26:04PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> >> There was discussion one midnight in #CLFS-Support about 32 bit >> user space for sparc64, ppc64, and mips I think. Can't remember it >> all at the moment, but here is what I have done with the latest SVN >> Powerpc build. >> >> > Interesting. I assumed you would need to load the kernel module > before compiling on the finished system, otherwise it would attempt > to build with -m64 ? > > Not with a simple specs patch, assuming we even were to build a 64bit compiler. > FWIW, I gave up trying to build 32-bit ppc on my own G5 after > getting issues with bash - couldn't be sure if something I was doing > was causing the problem. Now that my G4 mac mini has died, maybe > I'll give it another try. OTOH, the longer I wait, the more likely > somebody will get firefox3 working on ppc. > > Anyway, before that I had been building from a shell running > 'linux32', then building 64-bit binutils and gcc in /opt/kgcc using > the first two steps from the 64-bit cross- build. Then, I built > linux32, moved it to /bin, wrapped agetty in a script to run it from > linux32. The only other thing I had to change was gdm - it's a > script anyway, so I edited it run the binary from linux32. > > I take your point about not needing to rebuild binutils, but there > has been so much aggravation with gcc on ppc64 (I've often needed to > use an older version, e.g. in the early days of gcc-4.2) that I find > it easier to just use a toolchain which is known to work! > Mind you it is still just a idea.
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