Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enforce a non-spe kernel build even on broken compilers

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>]

* Nate Case | 2008-10-17 09:02:11 [-0500]:

>On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:43 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> With this patch it compiles and boots fine.
>> The option -mabi=no-spe is not required.
>
>Please don't accept this patch yet.  My past testing showed that
>"-mabi=no-spe" was required for my toolchain.  I'll go back and double
>check though.
Okay. Here my compiler details:

| powerpc-linux-gnuspe-gcc -v 
| Using built-in specs.
| Target: powerpc-linux-gnuspe
| Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.3.1-9'
| --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs
| --enable-languages=c,c++,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
| --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
| --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
| --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/include/c++/4.3.1
| --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
| --disable-multilib --disable-multilib --with-cpu=8540
| --enable-e500_double --with-long-double-128 --enable-checking=release
| --program-prefix=powerpc-linux-gnuspe-
| --includedir=/usr/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/include --build=i486-linux-gnu
| --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=powerpc-linux-gnuspe
| Thread model: posix
| gcc version 4.3.1 (Debian 4.3.1-9) 
 
ths told me that we need all three options in this order because of how
they interact with gcc's internal flags.

>- Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>

Sebastian