Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:15:04 -0700
From:      Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>,  "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>,  FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: powerpc and powerpc64 builds broken
Message-ID:  <CAHSQbTBK2hNniWdXuF-V16ZD3QZuy8FHSOsKysxp68Du5hu7Tw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <21894.1435679323@chaos>
References:  <CAHSQbTC31gdLryKxkBoUef0gN3CBssFZNPdQgiZ_QJNK1g4NPQ@mail.gmail.com> <8C09575A-B885-4F41-BFF8-46FEC028E755@gmail.com> <CAHSQbTA2XQKu=_Kyfr0zX5g0jsbtjDHc-UKPYAdkb=5JPYYsQg@mail.gmail.com> <F4FE7E27-A350-44C6-A24F-CB28951C7BF0@lists.zabbadoz.net> <CAJ-Vmok0jD6Os2zfutbUukRJ%2BB9RUfY-Gr=1UqbuJywH%2BLBjKw@mail.gmail.com> <CAHSQbTATHxhpWs3=jGQ7sFWj%2BnX-%2Be99YKFZW%2BY0zMWbd%2BYiqg@mail.gmail.com> <21894.1435679323@chaos>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > Yeah, crossbuilds work fine. It's the actual run-on-real-hardware bit
>> > that doesn't.
>> >
>> > (powerpc64 runs fine in qemu-devel; people should try it!)
>>
>> r284345 (introduction of metamode) is the problem.  I bisected it on
>> the power8 and it reliably fails this way.  Andreas tested it on his
>> G4 (32-bit hardware) and it worked fine, so there's something
>> introduced that just doesn't like powerpc64.
>
> Hmm, didn't touch usr.bin/mkesdb so must be something indirect.
> Is this with[out] NO_CLEAN ?

Tried it both ways, with the same result.  I don't think metamode
necessarily is the cause of the problem, merely unmasking the latent
problem.  Though I've committed a fix for this, it would still be nice
to understand what in r284345 exposed this.

- Justin



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAHSQbTBK2hNniWdXuF-V16ZD3QZuy8FHSOsKysxp68Du5hu7Tw>