Re: [PATCH] [XM-TEST] Fix xm-test suite for x86-64

[Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:00:41AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:

Hi Stefan,
	Sorry for the delay in replying.  To be honnest I know that
uClibc works but I was unsure why, so I had to get access to a machine
I could investigate on.

> Did the uClibc really compiled/work for powerpc before? The 
> 'TARGET_i386=y' is set in that common uClibc cnfig file.

Yes, thats correct but toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk overrides the TARGET
based on BR2_ARCH, which is correctly handels for native or cross
compiles.

> I tried  building the buildroot environment for x86-64 using the same as 
> the i386 configuration. Unfortunatley the uClibc version that's being 
> downloaded for i386 does not compile for x86-64 due to a missing file in 
> an x86-64 directory, so I switched it to use a snapshot of a given date.

OK thanks.  It's a shame that uClibc 0.9.28 doesn't work on x86_64.

Yours Tony

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