[RFC] gcc linker path for armhf

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011, dann frazier wrote:
> At this point I'd like to submit both patches as an RFC. I suspect the
> static patch might be fine (and safest) for distributions like Debian
> that don't yet enable bi-arch on armhf, but not for distros like
> Ubuntu which do. The dynamic version should work in the bi-arch case,
> but it also will change the default linker path for soft-float
> binaries and I suspect we *don't* want to do that. Perhaps we need to
> #ifdef that out somehow if we're building for a soft-float default
> target?

> -   -dynamic-linker " LINUX_DYNAMIC_LINKER " \
> +   %{msoft-float:-dynamic-linker " GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKEREL "} \
> +   %{mfloat-abi=soft*:-dynamic-linker " GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKEREL "} \
> +   %{mhard-float:-dynamic-linker " GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKERHF "} \
> +   %{mfloat-abi=hard:-dynamic-linker " GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKERHF "} \

 There's an unfortunate issue with spec files which will prevent the
 biarch case from supporting -mhard-float/-msoft-float along
 -mfloat-abi in the near term:
 http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-toolchain/2011-March/000964.html

 Otherwise, looks good to me; thanks for the patches

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Loïc Minier