From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:18:46 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] sdl: fix building on powerpc64 and powerpc64le In-Reply-To: References: <20161107225106.5e9e61b6@free-electrons.com> <53f345eb-3ea1-02ef-06bf-72f011b3728a@mind.be> <20161108051006.GB6803@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com> <99a8adb3-3fa3-7050-e31f-16d2ee67ea12@mind.be> <20161109043021.GA10982@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 13-11-16 18:13, Bernd Kuhls wrote: > Am Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:30:21 +1100 schrieb Sam Bobroff: > >> How do those options sound? Any other suggestions? > > Hi, > > while investigating the build errors of the minidlna package > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=minidlna-1.1.5&arch=powerpc64le > I came across this discussion. > > The root cause of the build error is the fact that both libexif (last > release dates 2012-07-12) and libid3tag (last release dates 2004-02-18) > contain a .m4 file which does not detect shared libs support because of > the elf64ppc/elf64lppc problem. Autoreconf'ing libexif has its own > problems wrt $MKINSTALLDIRS so I would like to avoid it. > > What about doing something similar Debian did back in 2014? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2014/09/msg00041.html > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760395 Nice idea, but it's only possible for internal toolchains. Unless if we merge the ld-wrapper patches (last news of which was: it shouldn't be needed). I'm slightly inclined to go for patching configure or libtool.m4 instead. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF