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From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
To: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
Cc: Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>,
	kyle.d.moffett@boeing.com, libffi-discuss@sourceware.org,
	dclarke@blastwave.org
Subject: Re: libffi fails to build on powerpc64-linux
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50878.10.0.66.17.1331007647.squirrel@interact.purplecow.org> (raw)


> (let me preface this by apologizing for the build breakage)
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Taking my best swag at where the soft_double_prep label should be
>> (comment said it should be handled like UINT64), I tried the following
>> patch which allows everything to build without warnings and seems to
>> pass the testsuite:
>>
>>
>>                === libffi Summary ===
>>
>> # of expected passes            1659
>> # of unsupported tests          55
>
> Those results look fine, however, the soft_double_prep label was
> specifically removed by this patch...
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=powerpc-ffi-softfloat.patch;att=1;bug=644338
>
> ...which was designed to enable support for soft-float ppc targets,
> among other things.   I see now that the original patch didn't remove
> all references to soft_double_prep.
>
> At this point, I'm hoping that Kyle Moffett, the author of this patch
> can have a look.  My guess is that either I mis-applied the patch, or
> he posted the wrong patch to apply.

I am no where near my powermac g5 but as soon as I can I'll climb back
in and see what I can get done with libffi. The entire objective of my
efforts was to get a clean bootstrap of GCC 4.6.2 for ppc970 and then
to work towards GCC 4.7.0RC1 etc.  Thus this is a bit of a road block
that must be cleared on ppc.

Dennis



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             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-06  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06  4:21 Dennis Clarke [this message]
2012-03-06 16:17 ` Peter Bergner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-09  2:37 David Edelsohn
2012-03-09  8:02 ` Kyle Moffett
2012-03-07  4:13 Dennis Clarke
2012-03-05 23:05 Dennis Clarke
2012-03-05 23:29 ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-06  0:29   ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-06  3:18     ` Anthony Green
2012-03-06 15:36       ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-06 16:16         ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-07  4:03         ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-08 23:14         ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-09  1:01           ` Peter Bergner
2012-03-05 22:56 Peter Bergner

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