[Xorg-driver-geode] proposal: always build with -march=geode

Writer, Tim Tim.Writer at amd.com
Tue Jul 13 09:08:06 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 13 2010, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Writer, Tim <Tim.Writer at amd.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 02 2010, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Writer, Tim <Tim.Writer at amd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq
>>>
>>> This seems to suggest that some tools exist to make an x86_64 switch
>>> personality to 32-bit, but I'm not sure whether this information is
>>> too Debian-specific or not.  Comments?
>>
>> Lots of stuff is Debian specific but I would guess that this:
>>
>> | Q. Cross-compiling a 32-bit (i386) Linux binary on 64-bit Machine (amd64)
>> |
>> | Short answer, depending of the tool you use, you can use one of:
>> |
>> | linux32 make
>> | linux32 dpkg-buildpackage
>> | linux32 git-buildpackage
>>
>> should work for cross compiling for Geode on most x86_64
>> distributions.

I have it on good authority (a person who routinely builds for i386 on
x86_64) that passing `-m32' in CFLAGS to the X.org build scripts is
sufficient so using `linux32' may be overkill.

Tim



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