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