Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 31/43] tests/tcg: enable building for MIPS

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 April 2018 at 18:49, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 04/19/2018 10:58 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> This doesn't add any additional tests but enables building the
>>> multiarch tests for MIPS using docker cross compilers. We don't have a
>>> cross compiler for mips64 big endian though.
>>
>> Oh we have one, using CFLAGS+=-EB
>>
>> we don't have cross libraries although.
>
> Yeah I thought the same with the ARM compilers (-mbig-endian) but it's
> the libraries that let us down. If, as you say, newlib gets this right I
> suspect we should use that to build the compilers not supported out of
> the box by Debian.

I don't think we really want to get into the business of
building our own cross compilers if we can avoid it...it's harder
than it looks and we would be essentially reinventing the wheel.

thanks
-- PMM