[PATCH] Solaris x86-64 fixes for binutils

Alex Bennee kernel-hacker@bennee.com
Mon Mar 19 20:19:00 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:18 +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:55:25PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:
> >
> > Given Sun are likely to ship intel boxes this part of the patch may be
> > redundant.
> 
> That will not affect the name of these directories, "amd64" has been
> defined as a stable name even for Intel's EM64T implementations. I'm
> surprised there's a box where a 64 symlink doesn't exist though, that
> sounds like a broken machine to me.

Well the original target machine had been a Solaris Express machine
upgraded a few time to OpenSolaris builds. It may well of been b0rked in
the process.

As I'm targeting stable Solaris 10 machines I guess I can drop this
patch if they all should have the symlink.

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