Re: failure of cross-compilation detection on BlueGene/L

[Steven G. Johnson]

Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> > It matters not as the host alias you pass to --host, but definitely for
> > macros like those from Libtool which decide things based on $host.  In
> > the other thread, powerpc-bgp-linux seemed like a sensible thing.  But
>
> This doesn't make sense to me, because the compute nodes (as far as I 
> understand from IBM's papers online) are not running any version of a 
> Linux kernel.  See 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~beckman/bluegene/SSW-Utah-2005/BGL-SSW03-CNK-CIOD.pdf 

Also, the vendor clearly should be "ibm", not "bgp" (and what about 
BlueGene/L, which runs essentially the same operating system?)

That's why I suggested something like powerpc64-ibm-bluegene, or 
possibly powerpc64-ibm-bluegene-{version} if a version can be detected 
and is useful.


Steven