changeset in /hg/icedtea6: 2008-10-27 Matthias Klose <doko at ubu...

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:08 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Why not simply removing the use of uname -m? Yes, I know that the current
> approach is a hack, but some debian buildds are configured in such a way that
> they don't set the linux32 personality (no, I don't want to argue why buildd
> admins do this). I checked in a fix for the ppc/powerpc problem, but in the long

Thanks.

> term this should be better fixed upstream. The upstream build already uses
> -m32/-m64 explicitely to allow building in configurations where the default gcc
> (without -mxx) is not the compiler you want to use.

I agree, I use that when building jdk7.

- Christian