Subject: Re: config & endianness
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: port-evbmips
Date: 03/06/2006 10:24:52
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <440C7308.4030304@tadpole.com>
> garrett_damore@tadpole.com wrote:
>
>   
>> But I think the .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} logic you suggested above will help
>> with this.  I hope so anyway.  Stay tuned, because I *will* be adding
>> ath support for the Atheros AR5312 kernel configs when I add them. 
>>     
>
> I doubt current config(9) supports such conditional statements
> by environments or something else.
>
> I'm afraid you have to have both mipsel/mipseb config files
> for bi-endian boards, which include either files.evbmips-el or
> files.evbmips-eb that has proper "object /athhal-mips*-elf.o" lines.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>   
Good point.  I was confusing Makefiles and config.

Aargh what a pain in the neck.

I think this is a sign that config should grow some awareness of the
target architecture being configured.

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