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From: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] BuildRoot cannot build powerpc64
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:00:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160817190047.GG22524@waldemar-brodkorb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160817193721.0cc1466d@free-electrons.com>

Hi,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:33:30 +0000, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> 
> > Our RFS we like to have static, so that we can throw libs into
> > the system @ runtime without breaking our stable RFS.
> > 
> > Based upon your e-mail, I dropped into the uclibc dependencies
> > || BR2_powerpc64, which made it selectable.  Problem is that
> > it wouldn?t build.  My guess is that the T-series parts haven't
> > been added to uClibC-ng yet, which is why it isn't selectable.
> > 
> > Thus, the answer to my question is "it is by design".
> 
> The only C library that supports PowerPC64 today is glibc.
> 
> But glibc does not support static linking.
> 
> Hence there is no solution to do a statically linked rootfs on
> PowerPC64 today.

Latest musl release supports ppc64.
I will sent a patch to allow to build it.

best regards
 Waldemar

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16 22:43 [Buildroot] BuildRoot cannot build powerpc64 ANDY KENNEDY
2016-08-17  0:24 ` Ricardo Martincoski
2016-08-17 15:33   ` ANDY KENNEDY
2016-08-17 17:37     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-17 19:00       ` Waldemar Brodkorb [this message]
2016-08-18 18:02       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-08-18 21:18         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-24  1:01           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-08-24  9:37             ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-08-18 21:19         ` Khem Raj

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