Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: MACHINE_ARCH WRONG ON MIPS PLATFORMS
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/23/1998 11:47:11
In message <Pine.NEB.4.02.9807231340021.20864-100000@duhnet.net> Todd Vierling writes:
: : 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.

The gnu configure stuff, as well as the stuff from MIPS, I think, uses
mipsel and mipseb.  It makes sense, imho, to be consistant with those
naming schemes.

Warner