[Clfs-dev] Bug/Notice Section 4.4, Embedded CLFS GIT-20171012-mips

[Andrew Bradford]

Hi Tobias,

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018, at 9:12 PM, Tobias Vogel wrote:
> In Section 4.4 Build Variables 
> (http://www.clfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/mips/cross-tools/variables.html) 
> right after Table 4.2 in the Commands-Box where it says "Now we will set 
> the architecture ... based on the target triplet provided above", the 
> reader is  advised to export CLFS_ARCH as "mips".
> 
> Followed by a sed-expression which is obsolete, as the Endianess 
> returned by the expression will always be "big", if the CLFS_ARCH is 
> exported as "mips" just one line earlier - however, one might set the 
> CLFS_ARCH to "mipsel" based on the instructional text which references 
> the Table above.
> In latter case, the Endianess would indeed return "little", allthough 
> the remainder of the Book an invalid CLFS_ARCH set to "mipsel" would 
> fail any Compilation attempts.

Thanks for reporting this! I've created a trac ticket for it so that it won't be forgotten: http://trac.clfs.org/ticket/1186

Thanks,
Andrew