[NEW BUG]: Configure broken on MIPS

[David Holmes]

On 23/03/2018 6:46 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 
> 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.

Isn't the best quick fix one that only adds -m64 for x86? I recall  a 
report that arm32 is similarly broken.

David
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>> 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