On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:30:08AM -0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:40:50AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote: > > > > > crosscompilation unlike the /proc/cpuinfo thing and doesn't rely on > > > > properly installed libraries and headers might possibly of interest for > > > > building standalone software. > > > > > Hmm, I don't think config.guess is ever used for cross-compilation as > > > the script's purpose is to guess the host and you need to specify one > > > explicitly for a cross-compilation to happen. Anyway it's saner not > > > to use build system properties to guess host system ones. > > > > You're close, but not quite correct. In a cross-compilation environment, > > the job of config.guess is to determine the type of the build system, > > which may be different to the host and will certainly be different to the > > target. > > In case of Linux/MIPS it could guess wether it's a little endian or big > endian configuration and emit mips-unknown-gnu-linux or > mipsel-unknown-gnu-linux that is taking away the burden of the user knowing > about the right endianess for his target - specifying mips-linux as target > should then be sufficient. Does that sound sane or would overriding the > users explicitly give targetname (or even hostname for a native build) be > considered a bad thing? Since specifying "mips-linux" is understood to mean big-endian right now, I'd say yes... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
