From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Patch adding POWER9 cross compile support Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:27:31 +0100 Message-ID: <878sxm3aik.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8736o0hzvs.fsf@gnu.org> <35fe8a38-74ec-9295-2a85-bb2d5e2003a7@platen-software.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h32EZ-0005Iy-31 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:27:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <35fe8a38-74ec-9295-2a85-bb2d5e2003a7@platen-software.de> (Tobias Platen's message of "Wed, 6 Mar 2019 18:56:49 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Tobias Platen Cc: Guix-devel Hi Tobias, Tobias Platen skribis: > On 03/06/2019 02:54 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> + ,@(if (string-prefix? "powerpc9-" target) >> + ;; On POWER9 we need this because = XXX. >> + '("--with-long-double-128") >> + '()) >> + > It needs to be ppc64el I think. I will later do a test in a big endian > vm. POWER9 is a bi-endian architecture, and most distros only support > little-endian. POWER4 only supports big-endian, and is still supported > by some distros. After testing I will send an updated patch. I don=E2=80=99t think that answers my questions. :-) Those were: 1. What GNU triplet do you use? 2. What the reason for this extra configure flag, so we can add it in the comment above in place of XXX? TIA! Ludo=E2=80=99.