On 14.04.2008 [11:06:45 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:20:49PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 11.04.2008 [14:28:46 -0700], Eric B Munson wrote: > > > Building on IA64 currently fails because elflink is not supported. This > > > patch > > > sets up a NO_ELFLINK define in the IA64 section of the Makefile and a > > > check > > > in setup_libhugetlbfs that will skip the elflink calls on IA64. > > > > Hrm, if you do this, the same thing is going to be needed in the sparc64 > > section. Really, you should look to modify the ELF32/ELF64 defines to do > > the right thing on ia64/sparc64. I think we just skip building elflink.o > > for both because we don't define either of those macros. > > Hrm. We should be able to make elflink work on sparc64. Unlike ia64 > it doesn't have a peculiar address space setup that makes it > impossible to do this in the usual way. Now that we have the > linker-script free elflink stuff we won't even have the hassle of > writing linker scripts.
This is true, but I think may be overkill for 1.3? We haven't had sparc64 support yet, and I don't think I'll have the time to work on it in the short-term. And with 2.0's scriptless relinking, we shouldn't need to worry about it. Thanks, Nish ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
