Warwick Hunter <whunter@agile.tv> writes:
> There was a patch submitted a while ago that doesn't
> seem to have been rolled into 7.2.1 that fixes this.
> It does it by patching s_lock.c to add the set .mips2
> assembler directive. The patch is attached.
The s_lock change is in current sources, but it concerns me because it
seems it could break other mips-based platforms (ie, pre-mips2). I'd
vote for reverting that change and putting in Ian's template change
instead --- which for anyone not paying attention, was:
> The file src/template/netbsd should have three lines added (similar to the
> current src/template/linux one), so the full file looks like this:
>
> ----
> CFLAGS=-O2
>
> case $host_cpu in
> cobalt*) CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mips2";;
> esac
> ----
Seems to me the template tweak would be a lot simpler to hack around on a
per-installation basis if needed.
Comments?
regards, tom lane