On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 14:35 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote: > > Is that to say this solve method will let the geode compilation > successful, > but in un-use status? Only for the whole build success of the X.org tree? > > Exactly. > > - We (as in X.Org) get bug reports as compilation fails on 64 bit. People > don't know so they ask.
For this, I prefer your initial idea of issuing a warning and gracefully skipping src/ on non-x86 architectures. > - People other than pure Geode developers make contributions and many have > 64 bit systems. It could be in Autotools only, like I do, > it could be fixing code due to server API changes, like yesterday. Basically > anything that is safe to do without the need of loading the driver on the > real hardware. > > It is a simple matter of making it easy for others to contribute. For that, wouldn't prepending -m32 to the compiler flags ensure that the driver can be built on x86_64 and still generate x86_32 instructions always? Martin-Éric _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
