Re: PPC update

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Dec 10, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > Can you describe your biarch change and how that affects the AMD64
> > > port?  Can I still crosscompile like I was used to?
> >
> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/grub/grub2/configure.ac.diff?
> > tr1=1.17&tr2=1.18&r1=text&r2=text
>
> Heh, that's code and not a description. ;)
>
> I was wondering why it was required, some background, etc.

I was on a ppc64 system with a biarch compiler. In this case, the 
compiler was set to emit ppc32 binaries by default, but -m32 doesn't 
hurt. Other PPC biarch compilers may emit ppc64 binaries by default, in 
which case -m32 is required, same as on an x86-64 system.

-Hollis