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:[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
