On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 04:23:17 Sedat Dilek wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > On Tuesday 15 October 2013 15:00:40 Khem Raj wrote: >> >> On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellcey wrote: >> >> > I have a question about endiness and uclibc. I am trying to build >> >> > multiple versions of uclibc for MIPS, including big and little endian >> >> > versions. What I notice is that in Rules.mak there are lines: >> >> > >> >> > CPU_LDFLAGS-$(ARCH_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -Wl,-EL >> >> > CPU_LDFLAGS-$(ARCH_BIG_ENDIAN) += -Wl,-EB >> >> > >> >> > to add -EL or -EB to linker commands (this seems to be generic for all >> >> > architectures). >> >> > >> >> > What I do not see is any generic (or MIPS specific) code to add -EL or >> >> > -EB to CPU_CFLAGS (or CPU_FLAGS-y to be exact). I am wondering if >> >> > there is a specific reason for this? Right now the uclibc build >> >> > seems to assume that the compiler I am using to build uclibc will >> >> > always generate the correct endiness without any flags. >> >> >> >> That was consensus we had some time ago. Otherwise these flags were >> >> getting too many and difficult to deal with. >> > >> > well, i think that was more focused on cpu/arch/tune flags. we still >> > have endian flags in there for various targets. adding the right logic >> > for mips would be OK imo. >> >> As the Freetz router project had to deal with BE/LE issues, we (yes, I >> was more active these days) decided to define the Kconfig logic in: >> >> extra/Configs/Config.mips >> >> ...and added the the CPU_FLAGS-* (CPU optimization etc.) stuff to... >> >> Rules.mak >> >> Please see the patch in [1] for more details. > > that patch is exactly the sort of thing we are not adding more support for
Hi Mike, what had you in mind, how would you realize it? Regards, - Sedat - _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc