Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: MACHINE_ARCH WRONG ON MIPS PLATFORMS
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/23/1998 13:40:41
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

: But, ${MACHINE_ARCH} should be remained as "mips", because it is
: used to determine source directory in Makefile, and the source
: directory (i.e. XXX/arch/mips) should be shared between "mipsle" and
: "mipsbe".

This is easy enough to fix in the affected Makefiles, actually.

: BTW, powerpc is also bi-endian architecture. What do they do ?

IIRC, all the NetBSD powerpc architectures are big-endian.

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