Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2015-07-31 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 juillet 2014 09:11 -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com : I'd like to submit those for Debian once the 2nd patch is accepted. [...] Thanks for testing, and nice to see it helps. Both patches are in upstream elfutils git now and are also applied to the fedora

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2015-07-31 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Vincent, On 07/31/2015 02:59 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: Is there some change on this issue? Would ppc64el works out of the box with systemtap 2.8 and the current userland in sid? I'm not sure - I couldn't work further on this. Currently, Fernando (CC) may have a better understanding on the

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-14 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 16:11 -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: I built an elfutils package w/ your patches. The unexpected failures decreased by 24 (from 835 to 811). I'd like to submit those for Debian once the 2nd patch is accepted. (I believe it's close, for I haven't seen replies

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-14 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Mark, On 07/14/2014 07:47 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: I'd like to submit those for Debian once the 2nd patch is accepted. [...] Thanks for testing, and nice to see it helps. Both patches are in upstream elfutils git now and are also applied to the fedora rawhide elfutils package now. Cool!

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-10 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com writes: I currently lack some more systemtap background to be sure.. but overall 835 uf/1078 ep vs. 244 uf/1692 ep doesn't look very good. Does that match your opinion? Doesn't sound very good indeed. Do you still have detailed logs

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Wielaard
BTW. From the systemtap README: Consider configuring with --enable-dejazilla to automatically contribute to our public test result database. That makes it easier to compare test results at https://web.elastic.org/~dejazilla/viewsummary.php Also since systemtap depends on elfutils you might

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Timo and Mark, On 07/10/2014 04:36 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Doesn't sound very good indeed. Do you still have detailed logs from running the testsuites? I think at least the file testsuite/systemtap.sum should list which tests exactly failed, maybe there is some common cause to most

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Just documenting an observations. Debugging continues tomorrow. I'll try to find something about the listing_mode failures. The failing tests are those which do address liblisting_mode.so by non-absolute pathname. Only the absolute pathname work. There are 4 modes for specifying the

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-09 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Timo, [...] Btw, would it be possible for you to run the upstream testsuite on that architecture? [...] Sure. I ran the upstream test-suite on ppc64el and powerpc ports for comparison, both running on KVM guests, linux kernel 3.14 (Debian). git remote:

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-07-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com writes: Thanks for confirming it. These days Timo is more active on SystemTap, hence I'll wait for him to review and pick for his next upload. Okay, thanks Ritesh. I will wait for Timo's opinion. thanks for the patch, I'm happy to

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-30 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Ritesh, You seem to have forgotten to attach the patch. Oops.. Indeed. :-) Here it goes. Thanks, -- Mauricio Faria de Oliveira IBM Linux Technology Center Index: systemtap-2.3/debian/control === ---

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-30 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 06/30/2014 05:13 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: Hi Ritesh, You seem to have forgotten to attach the patch. Oops.. Indeed. :-) Here it goes. But does it build on that architecture. Last I checked systemtap was limited on the architectures it supported. Did you successfully

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-30 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Ritesh, But does it build on that architecture. Last I checked systemtap was limited on the architectures it supported. Did you successfully build it on ppc64el ? Yes; systemtap 2.3-2 + that patch builds successfully on ppc64el: [...] dpkg-deb: building package

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-30 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 06/30/2014 06:23 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: Hi Ritesh, But does it build on that architecture. Last I checked systemtap was limited on the architectures it supported. Did you successfully build it on ppc64el ? Yes; systemtap 2.3-2 + that patch builds successfully on

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-30 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 06/30/2014 10:13 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Systemtap has worked on (big-endian) ppc64 for a while on other distros. The (little-endian) ppc64el pieces are being introduced on Debian. :) Thanks for confirming it. These days Timo is more active on SystemTap, hence I'll wait for him to

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 06/27/2014 07:16 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: Hi Ritesh, This trivial patch adds ppc64el [1] to the arch list in systemtap. May you please consider it for an upload? Thank you, [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el Hello Mauricio, You seem to have forgotten to attach the

Bug#752891: systemtap: build on ppc64el

2014-06-27 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Package: src:systemtap Version: 2.3-2 Tags: patch User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64el Hi Ritesh, This trivial patch adds ppc64el [1] to the arch list in systemtap. May you please consider it for an upload? Thank you, [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el -- Mauricio Faria