You all do realize that most distributions will update config.guess and libtool as needed to support new arches, right?
That's what at least Gentoo and (at least for some cases) Fedora do, and I'm pretty sure other distributions have similar if not identical procedures. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On 17 January 2014 18:56, Albert Chu <ch...@llnl.gov> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 10:50 +0530, Chandan wrote: > > Thanks Chu > > I have tested the freeipmi-1.3.4.ppc64le.1.tar.gz and able to build it > > on ppc64le machine. > > One question on the frreipmi release. > > When you are going to release a new version of freeipmi and are you > > going to release the new version by keeping the these changes? > > As I noted earlier, I can't change the build process for every release > like this. I can do this as a special case, as needed, until the > libtool & config.guess get moved upstream and into distros. > > Al > > > Appreciate your response. > > > > Thanks, > > Chandan > > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:31 -0800, Albert Chu wrote: > > > Ok, round 2 > > > > > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.3.4.ppc64le.1.tar.gz > > > > > > Al > > > > > > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 11:37 +0530, Chandan wrote: > > > > Hi Chu, > > > > > > > > The source tar you provided(freeipmi-1.3.4.ppc64le.tar.gz) need to > have > > > > the latest config.guess file in order to build on ppc64le > archticture. I > > > > should have mentioned this in my previous mail , sorry I missed that > > > > part. > > > > ./configure : has throws the below error : > > > > configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one > > > > > > > > Latest config.guess with ppc64le support is available at : > > > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD > > > > > > > > Can you please update the config.guess file the source tar and let me > > > > know so I can verify. > > > > > > > > Appreciate your effort. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chandan > > > > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 11:39 -0800, Albert Chu wrote: > > > > > The tar.gz can be found > > > > > > > > > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.3.4.ppc64le.tar.gz > > > > > > > > > > Al > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 08:22 -0800, Al Chu wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 08:17 -0800, Al Chu wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Chandan, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can do it for 1.3.4 and release a special tarball just for > this newer > > > > > > > libtool, and perhaps on-demand as it is needed. But I cannot > update the > > > > > > > build process to use it everytime. > > > > > > > > > > > > I should say ... can't update the build process to use it > everytime > > > > > > until it is more upstream in major distros. > > > > > > > > > > > > Al > > > > > > > > > > > > > Al > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:53 +0530, Chandan wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Chu, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > we are looking at new release tarball for distro to pick up > of freeipmi. > > > > > > > > We are looking at being able to point the pkg tarball to the > distro such > > > > > > > > that the pkg build in the distro build( that will obvious > Little Endian > > > > > > > > version of Power Linux) without further issues. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Currently available source tarball (freeipmi-1.3.4) on > upstream uses the > > > > > > > > libtool that does not have support for ppc64le arch and so > the build > > > > > > > > failed to generate the shared library. > > > > > > > > So I am hoping you will use the alpha libtool and spin up a > new version > > > > > > > > of release tarball of "freeipmi" on upstream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Chandan > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 09:20 -0800, Al Chu wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Chandan, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you looking for a one-time build w/ this new libtool > so you can try > > > > > > > > > it on ppc64le machines? Or are you hoping I will use the > newer libtool > > > > > > > > > for future FreeIPMI releases? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The latter is more difficult for me todo, but I could do a > one-off for > > > > > > > > > ppc64le people to try out. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is this related to any work going on at Redhat? Within > the last few > > > > > > > > > months, several PPC related patches came from Redhat. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Al > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 16:33 +0530, Chandan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Albert, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC > Little Endian) > > > > > > > > > > architecture as part of which we are looking at all the > packages that > > > > > > > > > > need update. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was looking at “freeipmi” (from repo: cvs -z3 > > > > > > > > > > -d:pserver:anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/freeipmi > and > > > > > > > > > > freeipmi-1.3.4 as well ) and was failed to build > “freeipmi” on ppc64le > > > > > > > > > > machine because of outdated libtool. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha > source release that > > > > > > > > > > has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le. > A stable release > > > > > > > > > > is expected soon. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can pick up the libtool alpha source release from > either of the > > > > > > > > > > below : > > > > > > > > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz > > > > > > > > > > (1.6MB) > > > > > > > > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz > > > > > > > > > > (920KB) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Would it be possible for you to spin up a newer version > of > > > > > > > > > > "freeipmi" which would support ppc64le? by using alpha > libtool > > > > > > > > > > release? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can help to validate the new release of the "freeipmi" > works > > > > > > > > > > well by compiling on ppc64le machine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Appreciate your response. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Chandan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Albert Chu > ch...@llnl.gov > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-devel mailing list > Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel >
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