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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:47:02AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:38:26AM +0200, Eric Masson wrote:
> > >>>>> "Marcel" =3D=3D Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
> >=20
> >  Marcel> You simply assumed that different processor models within the
> >  Marcel> same architecture would be treated as different architectures.
> >  Marcel> This is not the case.
> >=20
> > <Fabien Barthez>
> >=20
> > Wouldn't it be the easiest and costless method ?
> >=20
> > </Fabien Barthez>
>=20
> I think it would be better to keep the definition of architecture
> as it is but decorate it with model for build purposes. This means
> that you need a simple way to extract the arch+model string from
> the runtime environment so that you can use it in make(1). A build
> is then started by saying something like:
>=20
> 	make buildworld HOST_MACH=3Di386-p3

${CPUTYPE} on the host system would do it.  Perhaps we need to make a
new variable akin to the other cross-compiling variables to tell it
what CPUTYPE to cross-compile for.

Kris

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