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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Scott Wood <scott@broadlink.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: GLIBC wont compile for MPC860
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 17:47:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9909012147.AA27400@marc.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Scott Wood <scott@broadlink.com> of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:27:55 PDT." <37CD8C4B.43C595EE@broadlink.com>


>>>>> Scott Wood writes:

Scott> Graham Stoney wrote:
>> 
>> Scott Wood writes:
>> > The MPC8xx have no floating point, so it should be compiled with -msoft-float,
>> > (I think)...  ./configure --without-fp  will do it.
>> 
>> Is this implied when gcc has been configured --with-cpu=860?

Scott> I don't think so...  I put -msoft-float into the sysdeps/powerpc/Makefile and I see
Scott> it twice below, so I would imagine that if you use both flags then -msoft-float
Scott> will be used.

	Unfortunately, the people who wrote PowerPC support for glibc did
not create a sysdeps/powerpc/fpu directory containing FP-specific code.
There currently is no way to disable FP code in glibc-2.1, but I believe
that the maintainers were suppose to fix this for glibc-2.2; I do not know
about the status.  People who have been working on Linux for embedded
processors have been building glibc somehow, but I do not know the details.

David
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-01 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-30  1:12 GLIBC wont compile for MPC860 Brendan Simon
1999-08-30 18:26 ` Scott Wood
1999-08-31  0:39   ` Graham Stoney
1999-09-01 20:27     ` Scott Wood
1999-09-01 21:47       ` David Edelsohn [this message]
1999-09-02 12:27       ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-09-03  2:15         ` Graham Stoney
1999-09-03  2:40           ` Michael Meissner
1999-09-03 12:18           ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-09-03 15:48             ` Dan Malek
1999-09-03 15:53               ` Grant Erickson
1999-09-06  1:15               ` Graham Stoney
1999-09-06  5:57                 ` Dan Malek

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