Re: [ppc patch] link with -m32

[Marco Gerards]

Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:06 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
>> Some 64-bit PowerPC compilers default to 64-bit output. Right now
>> we're building all the object files with -m32, but then the linker
>> complains when it tries to link a 64-bit grubof. We need to add -m32
>> to LDFLAGS as well as CFLAGS.
>
> Hmm, I didn't notice the error messages this caused. -m32 is a gcc
> flag, not an ld flag. However, there's some confusion about LDFLAGS
> and CFLAGS in genmk.rb (and conf/*.rmk). In particular, you cannot do
> $(CC) $(LDFLAGS), and you cannot do $(LD) $(CFLAGS).
>
> There is also confusion about which *FLAGS are used to build which
> targets. I've been investigating, but in the meantime this patch won't
> work.

I think LDFLAGS are really processed by cc, no?  So we do not use ld,
but cc if I am not mistaken.

Can you show what you currently have?  Or should I just look at your
previous patch?

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Marco