On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:47:02AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:38:26AM +0200, Eric Masson wrote:
> > >>>>> "Marcel" == Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Marcel> You simply assumed that different processor models within the
> > Marcel> same architecture would be treated as different architectures.
> > Marcel> This is not the case.
> >
> > <Fabien Barthez>
> >
> > Wouldn't it be the easiest and costless method ?
> >
> > </Fabien Barthez>
>
> I think it would be better to keep the definition of architecture
> as it is but decorate it with model for build purposes. This means
> that you need a simple way to extract the arch+model string from
> the runtime environment so that you can use it in make(1). A build
> is then started by saying something like:
>
> make buildworld HOST_MACH=i386-p3
${CPUTYPE} on the host system would do it. Perhaps we need to make a
new variable akin to the other cross-compiling variables to tell it
what CPUTYPE to cross-compile for.
Kris
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