On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph S. Myers wrote: > >> Users of those systems should configure for i586-linux-gnu or >> i486-linux-gnu not i686-linux-gnu. config.guess should select such a >> target automatically in the case of a native build. (If you configure >> glibc for i686-linux-gnu, it will use assembly sources that require i686.) > > That seems entirely reasonable to me. >
For Linux/x86, if gcc is configured for xxx-*-linux, the default arch should be xxx for both 32bit and 64bit, where xxx can be i[3456]86, pentium, ... x86-64. Is someone working on such a patch? -- H.J.
