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Re: [PATCH] PR bootstrap/65176: config.guess failed to guess machine with 64-bit kernel and 32-bit user space
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, binutils at sourceware dot org, config-patches at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:40:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR bootstrap/65176: config.guess failed to guess machine with 64-bit kernel and 32-bit user space
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- References: <20150223171743 dot GA32755 at intel dot com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:17:43AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 32-bit and x32 user-space environments may be running under Linux/x86-64
> kernel. Using "uname -m" isn't sufficient to properly detect the
> canonical system name for 32-bit and x32 user-space environments. This
> patch checks if compiler is configured for 64-bit, 32-bit or x32 objects
> under Linux/x86-64 kernel.
>
> Tested with 64-bit, 32-bit and x32 user-space environments under
> Linux/x86-64 kernel. I am not sure if this will ever be accepted in
> upstream since the config.guess maintainer doesn't want to add a new
> use of set_cc_for_build to config.guess. set_cc_for_build is used for
> Linux:
Ugh, isn't this what setarch is meant for?
Jakub