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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:00:01 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: 32bit builds on x86-64 host.
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Which seems rather unnatural to me.  All other merge architectures have
> ARCH=<archdir> where archdir is the name under arch, e.g. mips, powerpc,
> s390.  They then have a CONFIG_FOO_64 and set the utsname and -m32/-m64
> respectively.  It would be nice if x86 could behave like all other
> architectures in this respect.  Especially as the behaviour of the other
> architectures is a lot more intuitive.
>   

Yes, that would be nice.  I keep forgetting the ARCH= in my crossbuild
trees, and end up with strange mismashes.

    J
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