On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 11:50 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > On Aug 6, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: > > > I'm looking at trying to get multilib working for powerpc. However I'm a > > bit lost in how this is suppose to work from a few different perspectives: > > > > 1. from user perspective (I'm starting with a 64-bit build in /lib64 and > > adding 32-bit that would be in /lib): > > > > (i've added in local/conf): > > require conf/multilib.conf > > MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib" > > DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-lib = "powerpc" > > > > What should this end up producing? Do I get a 32-bit set of libs built > > automatically? What else do I need to do? > > > > 2. From a infrastructure point of view: > > > > * Do have a single compiler that is multi-arch or 2 compilers? (not sure > > how the x86_64 toolchain works today) > > * what areas should I investigate that might need tweaking that are arch > > specific? > > * should I see different task names for the new multilib builds? (or the > > 32-bit specific builds?) > > To add to this I'm wondering how we get proper eglibc for 32-bit, how we get > proper gcc libs (libgcc, etc).
As per my reply, we currently treat this as two separate toolchains so this makes this part of the problem very easy. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
