PowerPC failures

[Matthias Klose]

On 24.02.2011 23:37, Anthony Green wrote:
> David Gilbert<david.gilbert@linaro.org>  writes:
>
>> It seems to be a 32 v 64 issue. It's got a 64bit kernel but by default
>> gcc is producing 32bit
>> binaries, the __powerpc64__ flag is only set if -m64 is passed.
>> However, config.guess is saying
>> it's a powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu - and hence that's the directory
>> that was created.
>
> I just built and tested on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu with both -m32
> and -m64 and both worked fine (and I made sure that it was actually
> generating 32- and 64-bit binaries respectively).  Something funky is
> definitely going on here.  I'll look into it more tomorrow.

for me the easiest way to test is to enter the chroot with `linux32', or prefix 
the configure and make calls. then I make sure that the userland is detected as 
32bit while running a 64bit kernel.

   Matthias