Re: [PATCH] parisc: Makefile: explain that 64BIT requires both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers

From: Helge Deller
Date: Fri Jul 25 2025 - 15:35:28 EST


On 6/25/25 09:30, Randy Dunlap wrote:
For building a 64-bit kernel, both 32-bit and 64-bit VDSO binaries
are built, so both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers (and tools) should be
in the PATH environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-parisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

applied.

Thanks Randy!

Helge

This wasn't obvious to me; I was seeing lots of Assembler errors
when only the 64-bit tools were in $PATH.
I didn't find a better place to document this.

arch/parisc/Makefile | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- lnx-616-rc3.orig/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ lnx-616-rc3/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ endif
export LD_BFD
-# Set default 32 bits cross compilers for vdso
+# Set default 32 bits cross compilers for vdso.
+# This means that for 64BIT, both the 64-bit tools and the 32-bit tools
+# need to be in the path.
CC_ARCHES_32 = hppa hppa2.0 hppa1.1
CC_SUFFIXES = linux linux-gnu unknown-linux-gnu suse-linux
CROSS32_COMPILE := $(call cc-cross-prefix, \