On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 07:55:18AM -0400, Ulf Carlsson wrote:

> I think the convention is:
> 
>       mips = big endian
>       mipsel = little endian
> 
> These packages I've built are for big endian MIPS machines.  Maybe I should 
> have
> compiled for both mips and mipsel, so that we can get two ports.  It wouldn't 
> be
> much problem to build mipsel at the same time as I build mips, I'd just have 
> to
> type dpkg-buildpackage one more time.  I have to compile new set of glibc, 
> egcs
> and binutils first though.  It would be pointless to have one person working 
> on
> mips and one person on mipsel.  We would probably have to make the same 
> changes,
> thus duplicating work.

> I would have to tweak a some things to make dpkg-buildpackage -a build the
> packages to have the name mipseb (since the tools have the prefix mips-linux 
> and
> not mipseb-linux) but if you have a nice solution and find it necessary, I can
> certainly change it.

Hmmm - ok - i thought it had been mipseb 

Currently it seems our work is incompatible as i have decstations
which are pure little endian ...

Flo
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