Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host.

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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Dave Jones <davej@...>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...>

Subject: Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host.

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 4:57 am

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:00:01PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
quoted text> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Which seems rather unnatural to me.  All other merge architectures have
> > ARCH=<archdir> where archdir is the name under arch, e.g. mips, powerpc,
> > s390.  They then have a CONFIG_FOO_64 and set the utsname and -m32/-m64
> > respectively.  It would be nice if x86 could behave like all other
> > architectures in this respect.  Especially as the behaviour of the other
> > architectures is a lot more intuitive.
> >   
> 
> Yes, that would be nice.  I keep forgetting the ARCH= in my crossbuild
> trees, and end up with strange mismashes.

That's a problem with all architectures currently.  But I think Sam has
a patch that at least stores ARCH when using objdir != srcdir builds.

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32bit builds on x86-64 host., Dave Jones, (Mon Oct 29, 7:32 pm)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Oct 29, 8:07 pm)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 9:10 am)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 30, 9:00 pm)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Oct 31, 4:57 am)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Sam Ravnborg, (Wed Oct 31, 5:41 am)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 30, 9:11 pm)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Dave Jones, (Mon Oct 29, 8:39 pm)

Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host., Al Viro, (Mon Oct 29, 8:06 pm)

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