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:[email protected]:/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 machine because of outdated libtool.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 [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
