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From: Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter@triadic.us>
To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:34:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AFC16B.1060602@triadic.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160201202447.GM7732@vapier.lan>

On 02/01/2016 03:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 01 Feb 2016 14:29, Alex McWhirter wrote:
>> On 02/01/2016 12:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 29 Jan 2016 19:55, Alex McWhirter wrote:
>>>> On 01/29/2016 07:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>>> On 29 Jan 2016 19:28, Alex McWhirter wrote:
>>>>>> Regarding the issue with pcitutils, it is indeed and issue with gold. It
>>>>>> turns out udev is broken as well, as in it wont start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> binutils has supposedly fixed this issue upstream, i may try to emerge
>>>>>> 9999 later tonight. perhaps eudev fairs a bit better than udev? Would
>>>>>> there be any issue with moving to eudev as a default?
>>>>> arches should not be picking any defaults like udev.  we should be using
>>>>> the same default across all linux systems.  especially if the only point
>>>>> is to workaround a bug in gold.
>>>>>
>>>>> is the fix in binutils-2.26 ?  that's going into the tree in a bit ...
>>>>> i'm waiting for some feedback from upstream before i push it.
>>>> I can check to see if the fix is in .26, but eudev does work without
>>>> issue for what it's worth. pciutils is also compiling without issue with
>>>> eudev.
>>>>
>>>> I will try pulling 9999 and see if the issue is no longer there, if it's
>>>> been resolved there then ill check into .26
>>>>
>>>> Without that fix, sparc64 is probably a no-go. I suppose we could always
>>>> patch .25 if needed.
>>> why ?  as i said, gold is not the default, and we don't hold up issues
>>> because of gold compatibility.  if sparc64 w/ld.bfd works fine, then
>>> that's all we need.
>> It looks like udev is hard coded to use gold, i may have to hack around
>> with configure.ac to get it to compile with bfd.
> OK, that's an important point :).  yes, we'll want to deploy a hack for
> `use sparc` to the udev ebuild to disable the usage of gold.  should be
> as simple as:
> 	if use sparc ; then
> 		sed -i 's:-Wl,-fuse-ld=gold::' configure.ac || die
> 	fi
> -mike

The systemd mailing list makes it look like this may not be a sparc only
problem, it looks like it can also happen to 64 bit mips. What about
patching configure.ac to have an --disable-lto option?

if use sparc ; then
    configure_opts+=" --disable-lto "
fi


  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-28 23:06 [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port Alex McWhirter
2016-01-28 23:26 ` [gentoo-sparc] " Mike Frysinger
2016-01-28 23:37   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-01-28 23:46     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-30  0:28 ` [gentoo-sparc] " Alex McWhirter
2016-01-30  0:44   ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-30  0:55     ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01  9:24       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01 17:44       ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 19:29         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01 20:24           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 20:34             ` Alex McWhirter [this message]
2016-02-01 20:51               ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 22:03                 ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-04 18:40                   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-04 21:54                     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-04 23:44                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-07 10:35                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-08 15:21                           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-08 20:48                             ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-09  5:11                               ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-09  6:14                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-13  9:26                                   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-13 11:25                                     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-13 17:32                                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-13 21:26                                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-14  0:44                                           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-14 23:44                                             ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-15  2:13                                               ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-17 22:11                                                 ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-17 22:46                                                   ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-17 22:52                                                     ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-19  8:37                                                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-03-11  3:53                                                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-08-08 22:52                                                           ` Jack Morgan
2016-08-09  5:14                                                             ` alexmcwhirter
2016-08-10 18:45                                                               ` Jack Morgan
2016-08-31 17:26                                                                 ` alexmcwhirter
2016-09-01  0:46                                                                   ` Jack Morgan
2016-09-04 19:27                                                                     ` [gentoo-sparc] -fPIC vs -fpic = Headaches alexmcwhirter

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