Re: lib{atomic, itm}/configure.tgt uses -mcpu=v9 as default for sparc

2014-06-03 Thread Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
>> IMHO an efficiency enhancement should not prevent running less >> efficiently on a supported architecture. If target triple is >> sparcv9-*-*, the next case will match and will add the "-mcpu=v9" to >> XCFLAGS, but adding it for non-v9 sparc-*-* targets is at least weird. > > Well, V9 is about 2

Re: lib{atomic, itm}/configure.tgt uses -mcpu=v9 as default for sparc

2014-06-02 Thread Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Thanks Jonathan, >> If V9 is indeed required, is there a way to build without those libs? Or >> has pre V9 support been dropped at some point? > > --disable-libitm --disable-libatomic Ok, so those two switches will be required for non-v9 SPARC targets. I still think this should be taken care of

Re: lib{atomic, itm}/configure.tgt uses -mcpu=v9 as default for sparc

2014-06-02 Thread Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Hi Eric >> Removing "-mcpu=v9" allows the build to finalize. > > IIRC both libraries require the V9 architecture to work > properly/efficiently. I have successfully built without the switch, but I am not sure of the effects at runtime. If V9 is indeed required, is there a way to build without th

lib{atomic, itm}/configure.tgt uses -mcpu=v9 as default for sparc

2014-06-02 Thread Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Hi all, I have seen this in 4.8.2 but seems to be present since 4.7.0 (was added by revision 184177 in libitm/configure.tgt): # Map the target cpu to an ARCH sub-directory. At the same time, # work out any special compilation flags as necessary. case "${target_cpu}" in ... sparc)