The reason for the -m32 was, that I have upgraded my test system to 64Bit, but still wanted to test old Perls that were compiled at the time it was a 32Bit system. Maybe this is only an issue for me because of the upgrade from 32 to 64 Bit and will never occur on a 64 Bit system, were you compiled a 32 Bit Perl, because it already has the -m32 flag.
I will check which is the best solution to this issue during the week Gerald > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fschl...@zedat.fu-berlin.de] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:17 PM > To: Gerald Richter - ECOS > Cc: embperl@perl.apache.org > Subject: Re: build failures on arm, mips: -m32 not available > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:24:52PM +0200, rich...@ecos.de wrote: > > Do you know the exact $Config{archname} for sparc and powerpc, then I > > will only enable this for these architectures > > in Debian these values are: > > sparc: sparc-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int > powerpc: powerpc-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int > > There was a suggestion in #debian-perl to inspect $Config{ccflags} for > -m32 and use it only if present, or use $Config{ccflags} directly, but I don't > really know enough about these things or why Embperl does things the way > it does to really have an opinion on this. > > Florian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fschl...@zedat.fu-berlin.de] > > > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:53 PM > > > To: Gerald Richter - ECOS; embperl@perl.apache.org > > > Subject: build failures on arm, mips: -m32 not available > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm forwarding Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/691032 - Embperl > > > 2.5.0 > > > RC2 fails to build on armel/armhf, mips/mipsel, s390 due to -m32 not > > > being available on those platforms as a valid gcc flag. > > > > > > The use of -m32 in Makefile.PL was introduced in Embperl 2.4.0 along > > > with $perl32bit, to have Embperl compile as a 32 bit application on > > > a 64 bit system if Perl itself was compiled as a 32 bit application. > > > The patch used in Debian (as referenced in the Debian bug) simply > > > removes both uses of -m32; but then Debian doesn't compile Perl as a > 32bit application on 64 bit architectures. > > > Perhaps everybody would be happy if something like $Config{archname} > > > =~ /x86_64/ was checked in addition to $Config{ptrsize} == 4 for > > > $perl32bit to be set? (but note that in addition to i386/amd64, also > > > sparc and powerpc architectures support > > > -m32...) > > > > > > Florian > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: embperl-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: embperl-h...@perl.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: embperl-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: embperl-h...@perl.apache.org
