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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pass --build=<triplet> to native builds by default?
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:01:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppav8tot.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egrby6p8.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:01:23 -0500")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> It turns out that on ARM systems, the result of 'config.guess' depends
> on the result of 'uname -m'.  In other words, details of the kernel (and
> perhaps processor?) on the build machine will determine the triplet of
> our builds, which in turn may affect what set of instructions is used.

Do you know how the ‘uname -m’ output is used in config.guess?  What
does it return on ARM?

Often (always?) config.guess runs the compiler, and I think that’s the
most important source of information that it uses.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-03 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-03 20:01 Pass --build=<triplet> to native builds by default? Mark H Weaver
2015-01-03 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-03 22:11   ` Mark H Weaver
2015-01-03 22:15     ` Mark H Weaver
2015-01-04 16:20       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-04 19:11         ` Mark H Weaver
2015-01-04 20:18           ` Ludovic Courtès

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