minor bogon in MIPS configury

ralf@uni-koblenz.de ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Wed Feb 10 17:07:00 GMT 1999


On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:53:19AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> configure has:
> 
> case $machine in
> ...
> mips*)		base_machine=mips
> 		case "`uname -m`" in
> 		IP22) machine=mips/mips3 ;;
> 		*)    machine=mips/$machine ;;
> 		esac ;;
> ...
> 
> The use of uname here makes it impossible to cross-compile a mips3
> library.  If you give configure `mips3-x' it gets mutated to
> `mips64-x'.

That's ok because the the MIPS III instruction set is 64 bit.

  Ralf



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