> On Sep 6, 2017, at 3:28 AM, Meghali Dhoble <dhob...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Thanks John, for the response.
> We have a patch added already for ppc64 support at llvm, however still the 
> failures seen,
> 
Did you change Clang?

John.
> I will try to opt for 2nd option and see if that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> Meghali
> 
> <graycol.gif>John McCall ---08/28/2017 09:59:28 PM---> On Aug 28, 2017, at 
> 9:08 AM, Meghali Dhoble via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > Hi,
> 
> From: John McCall <rjmcc...@apple.com>
> To: Meghali Dhoble <dhob...@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org>, Graydon Hoare <gho...@apple.com>
> Date: 08/28/2017 09:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform
> Sent by: rjmcc...@apple.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Meghali Dhoble via swift-dev 
> <swift-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote:
> Hi, 
> I have been working towards getting the swift source code built on my power 
> (ppc64le) platform on Ubuntu16.04 OS. 
> I am observing build issues and looking for some help here. Please redirect 
> me if this is not the right place for these questions.
> 
> I would like to understand the pre-requisites and the hardware configurations 
> required to build this language. 
> The error I am getting look like memory issues as the process is being killed 
> abruptly. I am attaching the log herewith for reference.
> 
> I don't see anything like that in the log. It looks like an ordinary compiler 
> error relating to our custom calling convention.
> 
> You need to either
> 1. implement swiftcc in LLVM's ppc64 backend and then teach Clang that it's 
> legal there or
> 2. configure Swift to not try to use it.
> 
> In the short term, I suspect that (2) is the right approach. Graydon was at 
> least thinking about doing some work recently that would be aimed at making 
> it easier to do this kind of configuration; CC'ing him explicitly to see if 
> there's been progress there.
> 
> John.
> 

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