Re: Patch adding POWER9 cross compile support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Platen <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 03/06/2019 02:54 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> +                               ,@(if (string-prefix? "powerpc9-" target)
>> +                                     ;; On POWER9 we need this because XXX.
>> +                                     '("--with-long-double-128")
>> +                                     '())
>> +
> It needs to be ppc64el I think. I will later do a test in a big endian
> vm. POWER9 is a bi-endian architecture, and most distros only support
> little-endian. POWER4 only supports big-endian, and is still supported
> by some distros. After testing I will send an updated patch.

I don’t think that answers my questions.  :-)

Those were:

  1. What GNU triplet do you use?

  2. What the reason for this extra configure flag, so we can add it in
     the comment above in place of XXX?

TIA!

Ludo’.