Dear all, that implies that we need to split up quite a lot of source modules. I would hope that it is ok for RMs. Many thanks for the useful suggestion by upstream.
----- Forwarded message from Volker Froehlich <volke...@gmx.at> ----- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:15:58 +0200 From: Volker Froehlich <volke...@gmx.at> To: a.furi...@lqt.it Cc: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <fran...@debian.org> Subject: Re: [SpatiaLite-Users] PPC64 builds X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-3.fc16) On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 21:28 +0200, a.furi...@lqt.it wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:38:03 +0200, Volker Froehlich wrote: > > There's no urgency in this request, but it'd be great if > > libspatialite > > would build on PPC64. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663938 > > > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:54:16 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > >> Current version 3.1.0~rc2-1 seems ok on all archs, but for ppc > >> where it fails to build with something that looks like a compiler > >> issue. > >> >Based on > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spatialite/+bug/1012976 > >> and > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28904 it would appear > >> that the issue is that gcc chokes on building massive files on > >> powerpc > >> with PIC (your file compiles sucessfully if -fPIC is removed) and > >> the > >> gcc developers don't consider this a bug. > >> > >> The ubuntu guys suggested soloution is to modify the program that > >> generates the massive C files to generate a collection of smaller C > >> files instead. > > > > BINGO :-D > I suppose that failing to build on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora at the > same time scores a new record ;-) > > all right, > I've followed the suggestion coming from Ubuntu guys; there is no > more a single huge monolithic source. > now there are about 40+ reasonably sized sources instead. > > You'll find attached the latest -RC3 tarball; quite obviously you can > download the same identical base code directly from the Fossil > repository, if you wish. > > I've personally tested on Win32 and Fedora 17 amd64, and it works like > a charm ;-) > > let me know if this mega-patch effectively resolves any PPC oddity. > > bye Sandro Great, it built fine and all tests passed (PPC64 on F17). Just for reference -- the build log: http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=641073&name=build.log Notice, it's just a scratch build. Thank you two! Volker ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org