[PATCH] PR bootstrap/65176: config.guess failed to guess machine with 64-bit kernel and 32-bit user space

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:49:43AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > 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?
>> >
>>
>> It doesn't cover x32.
>
> So extend it for x32?

How could it be extended to x32?

> I mean, this is the way various other Linux arches work (e.g. powerpc*, s390*,
> sparc*, etc.), you are trying to do something different and again for x86
> only.
>
>         Jakub



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H.J.