Messages in this thread | | | From | Marcus Meissner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour | Date | Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:50:17 +0200 (CEST) |
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In article <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> you wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:49:48 +0200 > >> With the LINUX32 personality, you can build 32 bit binaries through >> autoconf, rpmbuild, or the kernel without pretending to be >> cross-compiling. It may not be the best solution, but people seem to >> rely on it and the patch brings ppc64 in line with how it works on >> the other architectures. > > I totally agree, this has a large precedence on many platforms > and there are even gcc frontends that check the uname output > to decide what code model to output by default.
Actually what you then do (which is the standard way) is
powerpc32 bash --login
which gives you a shell with 32bit personality and work from this.
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