On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:01:34PM -0500, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
>
> For autoconf? Why need to ask the kernel? Aren't there other very simple
> ways of determining build endianness in userspace?
>
There is - But autoconf in the current version is broken and needs this
to gather the endianess - As we currently have to live with it this is
a 2.4 issue - 2.5 should fix this and remove endianess from
/proc/cpuinfo.
Flo
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