[NEW BUG]: Configure broken on MIPS

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2018-03-23 06:22, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 23/03/2018 2:55 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> would it not be pragmatic to accept Ao's patch - it looks fine to me 
>> - since it certainly would not make matters worse. And let Magnus 
>> follow up with a cleanup change later?
>
> Well I hope Magnus's change is forthcoming. 
It might be some time still. I'm working on a complete overhaul of all 
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, where this is a part of that picture, but I was not 
planning on addressing just this thing urgently.

So, I think this patch will do for now. It solves the immediate problem 
for MIPS, and I can come back and make a cleaner solution later on.

> AFAICS it's as easy to write this only for x86 as it is to exclude it 
> for non x86. Honestly I don't know why the Aarch64 patch was done the 
> way it was - there must be some subtlety here that I'm not aware of.
I think it was just the smallest patch that worked for the aarch64 
platform. I didn't spend time arguing about the fix, since it is 
supposed to be short-lived anyway.

/Magnus