RE: Updating multilib support after a compiler is built

2010-05-21 Thread Jon Beniston
Thanks for the suggestions. > If you only want to optimize some libraries but not others, GCC doesn't > effectively support different multilibs having different sets of libraries either. > My proposal > would have the effect of making it much easie

Re: Updating multilib support after a compiler is built

2010-05-18 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jon Beniston wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to update the multilib combinations supported by GCC after it > has been built? (I would like to build some libraries optimised for > different CPUs variants, that aren't built by default). > > I tried doing this via a specs file,

Re: Updating multilib support after a compiler is built

2010-05-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Jon Beniston" writes: > Is it possible to update the multilib combinations supported by GCC after it > has been built? I believe that all the multilib information can be read from the specs file, so, technically, yes. > %rename multilib_matches old_multilib_matches > *multilib_matches: > mcpu

Re: Updating multilib support after a compiler is built

2010-05-18 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 18:30 +0100, Jon Beniston wrote: > Is it possible to update the multilib combinations supported by GCC after it > has been built? I don't know for sure, but I would guess and imagine that it is not possible. The intuition is that multilib-ness is really a matter of choosin