From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j242nZ53012869 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 02:49:35 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D72sg-0004BB-Ra for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:49:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 18654 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 22:17:45 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 22:17:45 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:50:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050223190035.618a8aab@snowdrop> <200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org> <4227C8D4.5060600@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4227C8D4.5060600@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503032150.05983.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9a5de724-7220-45f1-8073-d1c612a22407 X-Archives-Hash: 42088e42a1a6c2813273c6b77a2473c6 On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:32 pm, Kumba wrote: > The only differences between sparc32 and mips32 is a literal `sed -e > "s/sparc/mips/g"`. I've often wondered if sparc32, mips32, linux32, and > any other such tools can't be merged into a single command that names > itself appropriately depending on the HOST arch it's compiled on (or arch > defined by a configure --target statement for crossbuilds). the x86 one is pretty simple too ... really they all just call the personality() syscall and then execvp() the args passed in -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list