Bug#727899: blocking the ppc64el architecture bootstrap

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:52:41AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> On 25/08/2014 05:28, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > The ppc64el architecture has been added to the Debian archive. Your
> > package hyantesite fails to build as reported in bug #727899 and
> > the build log is available on [1].
> > 
> > It would be very nice if you can upload a fixed version of this package.
> > Don't hesitate to ask questions if you need help to fix this bug. If
> > you lack time for that, I can also proceed with an NMU.
> 
> It seems that the FTBFS comes from the fact that a shared library
> cannot be built. In configure results (standard tests), we can find:
> checking whether the powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64ppc) supports shared libraries... no
> 
> Is it normal for this new platform (I think no)? Do you have an idea
> where this result comes from (before I look in details)?

The problem is that the libtool snippet included in configure is too old
to support this architecture. That's why using dh_autoreconf would
regenerate the configure script from a recent version.

This bug was supposed to have a patch attached to it, but I just
realized it doesn't have one. Sorry about that. Please find one 
attached.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien at aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net
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