On Thursday 22 September 2005 23:23, Steve Munroe wrote: > Introduction > > It has become increasingly clear that PowerPC processor family needs > additional (machine) targets for the Linux distributions. At present, > Linux only has two targets (powerpc32 and powerpc64, powerpc is synonym > for powerpc32) for PowerPC. These targets only address the two operating > modes (32- and 64-bit) and don't address the wide range of processor > families and chips available. With only one target per mode, we are forced > to compile for a common subset of powerpc instructions and default > instruction scheduling. Isn't the --with-cpu= gcc configure option sufficient? This seems to work for Arm targets, which probably have as much variation as PPC. gcc is configured with --with-cpu=whatever or --with-arch=whatever, and everything else else figures it out from what the compiler. Paul _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
