Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour

[Marcus Meissner]

In article <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you 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.

Actually what you then do (which is the standard way) is

powerpc32 bash --login

which gives you a shell with 32bit personality and work from
this.

Ciao, Marcus
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