[openbeos] Re: Missing glibc PPC Parts?

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:07:22 +0100

On 2005-12-07 at 01:05:52 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > it seems like the PPC specific parts of the glibc in our repository
> > are
> 
> Cooool! :-)
> 
> > incomplete. I'm (or rather the compiler is) missing the
> > .../glibc/include/arch/ppc/bits directory and its contents (e.g.
> > endian.h).
> > 
> > Furthermore .../glibc/arch/ppc/ looks quite different from its
> > sibling x86/
> > directory. This looks mostly like floating point stuff. Jérôme, you
> > recently worked on that. Any clues?
> 
> I guess they are just missing, because no one really cared before.
> The basic idea is to have a common base directory (currently in arch/
> which I don't like that much, I'd like arch/common/ or arch/generic/
> better), and specific code in the x86 and ppc subdirectories.
> The Jamfile in the specific subdirectories would choose the files from
> the specific and generic directory to build the complete set.
> 
> In theory, the generic stuff should always be complete, but I guess
> that's probably no longer the case.
> 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> HTH.

I'll see. Thanks.

CU, Ingo

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