On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:05:59PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > I have not tried the 2.3.x series glibcs on MIPS64. I recommend you
> > use glibc HEAD for now instead, unless you're interested in tracking
> > down this sort of problem.
>
> FYI, I've been able to build glibc 2.3.5 with GCC 4.0.0 for
> mips64el-linux (n64) with minimal patching. I think what's only really
> required is that patch by Richard Sandiford that stays suspended in the
> glibc Bugzilla.
>
> For o32 glibc may have to be configured for "mips{,el}-linux" (as o32
> isn't MIPS64 at all), but that's a pure guess -- I haven't checked the
> scripts for that requirement.
>
> Do you think HEAD is stable enough for a non-glibc developer? It's soon
> after a fork after all, so I'd expect more serious changes to be applied
> nowadays.
Btw, what is the chance to see a biarch toolchain for mips? It seems
all linux architectures with 32bit and 64bit variants seem to have one
these days, except mips.
