[parisc-linux] linux32 personality & config.guess

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > On 9/6/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > > Nominally, the first part of the target string represents the
> > > > architecture of the kernel, and not the userspace architecture.
> > > > This is not sufficient to configure runtime applications when
> > > > multiple architectures are supported by one kernel.
> > >
> > > i'm not terribly familiar with the breadth of the parisc family, but
> > > isnt 64bit only available with 2.0 ?  so it'd be pretty clean on Linux
> > > to say: hppa64-*-linux-* means 64bit userland, everything else is 32bit
> >
> > Seems you misunderstood jda's above comment. We do not have a 64bit
> > userland on hppa. the 'hppa64' part of the target string represents
> > the architecture of the /kernel/. 64bit kernels run a 32bit userland,
> > hence hppa64-linux should be treated (so far) as hppa-linux.
>
> i didnt misunderstand anything
>
> i'm stating that an autotool based package should treat all hppa2.0 hosts
> as 32bit userland which is exactly what gmp does not do

which is to say i've sort of forked the thread as i'm not talking about the 
config.guess mis-guessing a 32bit userland under a 64bit kernel as hppa64 ...
-mike
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