On 12/28/2013 5:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, folks.
>
> I've noticed today that mips uses the same CHOST value for all three
> ABIs it supports:
>
> arch/mips/mips64/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_o32="${CHOST}"
> arch/mips/mips64/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_n32=${CHOST}
> arch/mips/mips64/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_n64=${CHOST}
> arch/mips/mipsel/mips64el/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_o32="${CHOST}"
> arch/mips/mipsel/mips64el/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_n32="${CHOST}"
> arch/mips/mipsel/mips64el/multilib/make.defaults:CHOST_n64="${CHOST}"
>
> Long story short, this sucks and will cause trouble.
>
> In the multilib stuff, we're using CHOST for two purposes:
>
> 1. wrapped headers are put in /usr/include/$CHOST,
>
> 2. multilib executables are prefixed with $CHOST-.
>
> (1) here is not really a killer feature but I'd rather avoid changing
> this at this point. (2) is actually a killer feature, since the eclass
> sets CHOST properly and thanks to that AC_CHECK_TOOL and friends can
> find multilib *-config progs and stuff without any special hackery.
>
> And those are just the examples I can think of. I suspect that more stuff
> may actually expect CHOST to uniquely identify build, especially some
> tricky hidden features in autotools :).
>
> I'd suggest that you changed the CHOST values to uniquely identify ABI
> in use, at least in multilib profiles and preferably in all of them.Matt can probably vouch for this better, but the only two ABIs affected by this are n32 and n64. mips[el]-unknown-linux-gnu implies a 32-bit big/little endian CHOST, which means the o32 ABI. mips64[el]-unknown-linux-gnu means either n32 or n64. So no change should be needed for o32-based installs. According to this Debian wiki entry: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples We would have to adopt mips64[el]-unknown-linux-gnuabin32 for n32 and -gnuabin64 for n64. Testing would be needed to watch for packages that don't have updated config.sub/config.guess files and fail to recognize this particular CHOST. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS [email protected] 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
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