On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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.
What do you mean? Multilib, per chance? If so, please feel free to
build one yourself -- as of 4.0.0 GCC will build libraries for all three
ABIs (o32, (n)64 and n32) if configured for mips64{,el}-linux and
--enable-multilib is in effect (I think it is by default). Bi-endian is
probably tougher, but it should be possible -- GCC itself supports the
"-mabi=" and "-mel" and "-meb" switches all the time AFAIK.
Of course you may need to have system libraries installed in place for
all requested configurations as appropriate; at least glibc, but perhaps
others as well (gmp, mpfr for Fortran; zlib for Java).
Maciej
