[ewg] Re: building userspace on ppc64 is broken

Mon Sep 17 23:00:50 PDT 2007

> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: building userspace on ppc64 is broken
> 
>  > >  %build
>  > > +%ifarch ppc64
>  > > +%{expand: %%define optflags %{optflags} -m64}
>  > > +%endif
>  > >  %configure
>  > >  make %{?_smp_mflags}
>  > 
>  > Hmm. Roland?
> 
> I guess if the OFED build system is breaking the libibverbs build then
> putting a patch like this in might be needed to fix things.

I don't really care whose fault it is. If OFED is doing something wrong,
we should fix that, not work around it at library level. But what is wrong?

Roland, I know you already help with packaging libibverbs for e.g.
debian. Can't you support packaging libibverbs for OFED too?

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