[ewg] Re: building userspace on ppc64 is broken

[Yosef Etigin]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>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?
> 

Another option is to build packages for ppc64 with an environment of
CFLAGS="-m64 $(rpm --eval %optflags)", like in the previous version of OFED.

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Yossi