PHP on PPC little-endian? Conflicts w/ ncurses big-endian

["Eliyahu Skoczylas" <EliSko@FastMail.fm>]

Hi!

I'm building for PPC405 (using a new machine .conf that I'll upload when
the board is released).

So far, everything has built and run successfully, but I just tried
adding in PHP.

Every time it conflicts with libncurses:
> NOTE: package php-5.2.6-r2: task do_configure: started
> ERROR: function do_configure failed
> ERROR: log data follows (/tmp/OE_temp-new/work/ppc405-linux/php-5.2.6-r2/temp/log.do_configure.26285)
> | automake (GNU automake) 1.9.3
>   <snip>
> | AUTOV is 1.9
> | NOTE: Executing autoreconf --verbose --install --force --exclude=autopoint -I/tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.9 -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal
> | sh: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
> | autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> | autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> | autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.9 -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal --force
> | acinclude.m4:1089: warning: underquoted definition of PHP_CHECK_SIZEOF
> |   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
> |   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> | sh: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
> | aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 127
> | autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 127
> | FATAL: autoreconf execution failed.
> NOTE: Task failed: /tmp/OE_temp-new/work/ppc405-linux/php-5.2.6-r2/temp/log.do_configure.26285
> NOTE: package php-5.2.6-r2: task do_configure: failed
> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> NOTE: package php-5.2.6: failed
> ERROR: Build of /home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb do_configure failed
> ERROR: Task 4 (/home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb, do_configure) failed
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 253 tasks of which 253 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
> ERROR: '/home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb' failed

At first I thought it was a problem with ncurses, and I tried rebuilding
using older recipes and version of ncurses, but no luck.
(And why does PHP need ncurses, anyway?)
But suddenly it hit me - this is the target version for ppc405, and
libncurses.so.5 is CORRECTLY big-endian.  The problem is that PHP (or at
least autoreconf for PHP) wants little-endian.

Has no one built PHP recently for a big-endian platform?  Besides the
php-5.2.6-r2 in .dev, I also tried php-5.2.0-r1 from .stable and got the
same thing.


TIA,

-    Eliyahu
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