On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:26:49PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:48:26PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > This patch udpates the GCC installation documentation to document the
> > configuration options to set the long double type on the PowerPC: I verified
> > that the documentation builds. Can I install this on to the trunk?
>
> Yes please, thanks! A few minor issues:
>
> > 2018-02-07 Michael Meissner <meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > * doc/install.texi (Configuration): Document the
> > --with-long-double-format={ibm,eee} PowerPC configuration
> > options.
>
> Typo ("ieee").
>
> > +@item --with-long-double-format=ibm
> > +@itemx --with-long-double-format-ieee
>
> Typo ("=ieee").
>
> > +systems. If you are building multilibs, you will need to configure
> > +the compiler using the @option{--with-system-zlib} option.
Thanks.
> Why is that? Is that a bug? On BE we build multilibs all the time,
> and we do not need that flag.
No idea. I imagine we will probably see the issue if/when we add IEEE
multilibs to big endian.
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