Bug#341882: Tri-arch support on mips(el) (was Bug#325226: libc6: Wrong dynamic linker on amd64)

2006-02-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Stuart Anderson writes: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Also, I am ready to give some help there. I am first trying to build the > > gcc and glibc packages on a mips, but I face a chicken and egg problem > > here. Does anybody already have glibc and/or gcc packages for mips? If

Bug#341882: Tri-arch support on mips(el) (was Bug#325226: libc6: Wrong dynamic linker on amd64)

2006-02-11 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Also, I am ready to give some help there. I am first trying to build the > gcc and glibc packages on a mips, but I face a chicken and egg problem > here. Does anybody already have glibc and/or gcc packages for mips? If > not, what is the easiest way to

Bug#341882: Tri-arch support on mips(el) (was Bug#325226: libc6: Wrong dynamic linker on amd64)

2006-02-11 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, Thiemo Seufer a écrit : The three mips ABIs are o32 (fully 32bit), n32 (32bit address space, 64bit register width) and n64 (fully 64bit). n32 traditionally uses (/usr)/lib32. The general problem with this approach is that it doesn't scale beyond 2-3 ABIs, and requires a "native" ABI definit