On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:10 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > And cacao:
> > 
> > | configure: error: armv7a systems are not supported at this time
> > | ERROR: Function do_configure failed
> > 
> >> yes I was expecting that kind of problems. openssl also has similar issues.
> > 
> >> another idea that struck me was that we could change the target triplet to 
> >> drop
> >> TARGET_VENDOR and replace it with TARGET_SUB_ARCH and TARGET_SUBARCH
> >> could be anything
> >> we could even make it same as MACHINE_ARCH which means you will build
> >> toolchain per machine
> >> and they will live together.
> > 
> >> then the tool names will be something like arm-v7-linux-gnueabi-*
> >> powerpc-e500-linux-gnu
> >> mips-mips2-linux etc. instead of *-angstrom-*- or *-oe-*-
> > 
> >> or arm-beagleboad-linux-gnueabi-* etc if we go with MACHINE_ARCH
> > 
> >> that would keep all recipe configury happy as the arch detected from
> >> config.guess will be what
> >> we had (arm, mips, mipsel powerpc etc) so no changes needed but we
> >> will have to drop the brand
> > 
> >> does it sound good ? bad?
> 
> I don't think abusing target vendor for that is a good idea. And I'm
> quite attached to my angstrom branded toolchains, tbh.

Note that you can still append your angstrom string to the vendor part
of the triplet...

Cheers,

Richard


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