On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Mitch Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: >> When doing full X.Org builds, many waste time investigating >> compile errors, not knowing anything about Geode. >> >> Only build on i*86 cpu. The configuration will not abort, >> a warning message is issued and no C code is compiled. > > I haven't tried it yet to know whether it's a problem, but it's > possible to *build* it on ia64, just not *run* it. > > (I am using a cross-compiler to compile x86 code on am ia64 machine) > > Even if the software still builds, I think the messages should be > changed to indicate it can't be run on a non x86 machine.
We already know that it cannot run on non-x86 architectures and that it can only compile on x86_32 or x86_64 (IIRC the build scripts even change some flags if the host is x86_64). Where would you put the message then? Martin-Éric _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
