Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour

[Olaf Hering]

 On Wed, Jun 08, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:49:48 +0200
> 
> > With the LINUX32 personality, you can build 32 bit binaries through
> > autoconf, rpmbuild, or the kernel without pretending to be
> > cross-compiling. It may not be the best solution, but people seem to
> > rely on it and the patch brings ppc64 in line with how it works on
> > the other architectures.
> 
> I totally agree, this has a large precedence on many platforms
> and there are even gcc frontends that check the uname output
> to decide what code model to output by default.

They (the auto* tools) should probably check for gcc -dumpmachine
instead for uname -m. Both have nothing in common, they just happen to
be equal on Walmart boxes.
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