From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GSJ7A-0007UY-Ks for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:01:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8QJxhma005027; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:59:43 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8QJxg2m026684 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:59:43 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CA86472A for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18073 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2006 15:58:38 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2006 15:58:38 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc and softfloat Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:59:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: Daniel Glaser References: <45195512.4070106@chaintronics.com> In-Reply-To: <45195512.4070106@chaintronics.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart48313552.56VjXin6jD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609261559.48189.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 36c94aa2-8d05-4d58-a187-69284619e3c5 X-Archives-Hash: 3a84bbe84bcb573b7a8cc7a1878b238d --nextPart48313552.56VjXin6jD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:28, Daniel Glaser wrote: > After long traceback, I found, that glibc and gcc have problems with > softfloat. (for glibc --without-fp is the right configure option for > my system, but currently it is not directly supportet by the ebuild, > got it in through EXTRA_ECONF=3D"--without-fp") if you use a target of *-softfloat-* the glibc ebuild will add --without-fp= =20 and the gcc ebuild will add --with-float=3Dsoft > Another thing is, that -msoft-float and -mlong-double-128 are not > supported (many many warnings), but used within the Gentoo ebuild. > Perhaps -m128bit-soft-float is the one the programmers wanted, but in > my opinion it is also not the right choice. the Gentoo ebuild does nothing of the sort ... this is all in the glibc bui= ld=20 system itself glibc-2.4 on ppc will require gcc-4.1.x ... anything older is not supported= =20 and i certainly wont waste any time on it > The Problems with glibc(2.4) and gcc (4.1.1 and 4.2) are discussed in > this bugreport http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2749. > Some patches are also discussed and attached in this bugreport. well, once upstream settles on something i have no problem cutting a patch= =20 from their cvs and putting into our glibc-2.4 patchset ... but i wouldnt=20 really want to do anything until they've settled on a solution first =2Dmike --nextPart48313552.56VjXin6jD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARRmGtEFjO5/oN/WBAQIVeQ//W+OBq+ok9JIFzkuJtURNn2kI1e3yWXcI Urwdq1F3nuc9YrJvvS1Yre3kG0PmFhA02cJig6NCtbuI8Xj+o8PHFqSJtKynU6sJ +ZjWs47jUqMbnLPM4vB42LsFi6walK+wH1Th9kkousJmr4rU69vVU3BaRz4NDm6s XLc4eVfgQjNLVr3nJ0BO+ytGeIEDiPjFpR+qaAjG8E3qULxiRV+6FKAi814n4I// rUaf9pmFNbEdxOq9+rUXHgOlk4rKATV0gLTsUTq6ouRDWCVZGV53ilmsqxDMtOda D8eKGw+poI/9kYiIOcE1wum8y46ysB1yIeoMtffvJxTrPN+a3Ta6bBjTHrwnsXDq iKHOdHD75KgRPaInZjKreB838U1S8nuS0NFeKOXJkR01NVUptvfJ7HKba7Tj5rYt rhywjaNQh0r6vBbGVPVXZRH1mvs3dp36ryYKka4RWcNdSGaJu0O+3tjJmSrVNM1/ qpqI1eZWGORj2hTExuHMO17jQmxm9COJbWy1fgOnmmkZdsvHm8QwvG/u7AHJo2V/ XBYD14gehLtmY374BK4JKQkC+zi1f+yA0cdB3KZ85AQMk/qakcEZdUOv/KxnVZob Nz9vbO1+pZ1ozPsVkYT9DAGMmtIOJ5231lLcYSk6LzEz6el7DxZjCHzrnHy92OxB GU+nliqmdug= =rSmL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart48313552.56VjXin6jD-- -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list