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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:20:28 -0800
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: PATCH: Handle Linux/mips (Re: Why is byteorder removed from /proc/cpuinfo?)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112110933570.17417-100000@hypatia.brisbane.redhat.com>; from bje@redhat.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:34:52AM +1000
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:34:52AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > > Of course, this needs some refinement.  ;-) Perhaps we need to run
> > > through $(CC_FOR_BUILD) -E or somesuch; cpp is no good, as it won't
> > > know all of the magic '*MIPS*' #defines.
> 
> > HJ's patch didn't compile anything; it ran code through
> > $(CC_FOR_BUILD) -E :)
> 
> I must admit, I missed that.  But I definitely noticed that it created 
> temporary files, which are more trouble than they're worth.  The number of 
> people running ./configure as root is frightening.

I don't want to assume $(CC_FOR_BUILD) can take - as input.


H.J.