From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waldemar Brodkorb Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:00:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] BuildRoot cannot build powerpc64 In-Reply-To: <20160817193721.0cc1466d@free-electrons.com> References: <57b3aeb6944cf_7ec33f915a8b1b9c298e6@ultri3.mail> <20160817193721.0cc1466d@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160817190047.GG22524@waldemar-brodkorb.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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