[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Fix cross compiling sparc64 on arm32 host

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 22:21:54 CET 2013


On 12/08/2013 06:57 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 03/12/13 21:35, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Add arm32 to the whitelist for handling lack of int128 type variants.
>> Otherwise we get errors like:
>>
>> /target/include/asm/types.h:79:1: error: unknown type name ‘__int128_t’
>>      typedef __int128_t dcell;
>>
>> This may introduce issues building on aarch64 but I have no way to test.
>> ---
>>
>> Recently, Fedora's build system had many arm hosts added. Since we always
>> cross build openbios, the RPM build is scheduled independent of the
>> build machine architecture. So whenever an openbios build was scheduled
>> to an arm host, things fell over.
>>
>>   config/scripts/switch-arch | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/config/scripts/switch-arch b/config/scripts/switch-arch
>> index 44f2df4..86cab3c 100755
>> --- a/config/scripts/switch-arch
>> +++ b/config/scripts/switch-arch
>> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ crosscflags()
>>       if test "$target" = "sparc64" -o "$target" = "ia64" \
>>            -o "$target" = "amd64" -o "$target" = "x86_64" \
>>            -o "$target" = "alpha"; then
>> -        if test "$host" = "x86"; then
>> +        if test "$host" = "x86" -o "$host" = "arm"; then
>>               cflags="$cflags -DNEED_FAKE_INT128_T"
>>           elif test "$host" = "ppc" -a `uname -s` = "Darwin"; then
>>               cflags="$cflags -DNEED_FAKE_INT128_T"
> 
> 
> Hi Cole,
> 
> Thanks for the patch - I don't tend to do much with the build system but it
> looks fairly reasonable to me. One minor stylistic nit is that switch-arch
> seems to be grouped by arch, so would it be possible to rework so that the
> overall result looks like this:
> 
> if test "$host" = "x86"; then
> if test "$host" = "arm"; then
>     cflags="$cflags -DNEED_FAKE_INT128_T"
> elif test "$host" = "ppc" -a `uname -s` = "Darwin"; then
>     cflags="$cflags -DNEED_FAKE_INT128_T"
> 

Thanks for the review Mark, that above example code doesn't appear to work but
I've sent something similar.

- Cole



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