[Buildroot] PowerPC64 toolchain not building

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:44:42 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:

> > You need to select the power8 processor for the issue to reproduce. It
> > doesn't appear with power7 for example.
> 
> Hmm, while that's not surprising, I've used that combination of options (power8
> big-endian with gcc 4.9.x and gcc 5.x) and it works fine for me. Have you tried
> building from completely clean, including clearing or disabling ccache?

Yes, I'm doing completely clean builds, I never use ccache, and always
start my builds from scratch.

Waldemar, are you able to reproduce the build failure on Power8 ?

> Maybe the host architecture matters? Is that x86_64? What gcc do you have on
> the host?

Yes, x86_64, the host gcc is quite old (4.4) since I'm using Debian 6.0
on this build server instance.

I've restarted a build on my laptop, which has a more modern distro,
I'll let you know the results.

Thanks,

Thomas
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