[Clfs-dev] Embedded clfs problems and workarounds

[Andrew Bradford]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Adrian Grigo <agrigo2001 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Andrew Bradford <bradfa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > If building GCC with --disable-multilib, would the -m32 or -m64 stored
>> > in the ${BUILD} variable still be needed in order to build packages?
>> > Or does GCC outputting 32 or 64 bit code not count as a library?
>
> After testing on my machine I can confirm that under x86_64 the compiler
> defaults to 64 bit code, even if the BUILD flag is unset.
>
>> > Do you know what the other implications of --disable-multilib are on
>> > x86?  (I don't)
>
> I think it prevents linking 32 bit code for the embedded system in
> future. But I assumed that was already out when --disable-multilib was
> passed to the binutils configure.
>
> Adrian Grigo

Adrian,

Thanks! :)

-Andrew