On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:20:42AM -0500, Roy Bixler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > 64bit itself is not broken on Debian. The part that we have trouble with > > is very fine grained. Dpkg selects architecture based on gcc's target. > > For us, even on sparc64, that is "sparc-linux". > > > > However, if we want to enable 64bit support, we have to use (by default) > > "sparc64-linux". We can't have that. So I have a patch (from 2.95.x) > > that enabled this. > > > > Matthias, I'll get this tonight. I now have an extra ultrasparc to do > > glibc/gcc testing on. > > Thanks for piping up. After Mathias' message, I downloaded the > gcc-3.2 source code from ftp.debian.org, unpacked it and applied the > Debian patch. After building it, I could verify that it only builds > the 32-bit version. I then cleaned out the build and did my own > './configure sparc64-linux' in the GCC source directory and built > again. This time, it builds a version that accepts both -m64 and > -m32. Perhaps your patch makes sure that -m32 is default? Anyway, > just wanted to verify your observations.
I have this compiling correctly now. Once I get it so that the packages build correctly (IOW, including the 64bit libs), I'll commit my changes to the gcc-3.2 Debian CVS. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
