From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Platen Subject: Re: Patch adding POWER9 cross compile support Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 18:56:49 +0100 Message-ID: <35fe8a38-74ec-9295-2a85-bb2d5e2003a7@platen-software.de> References: <8736o0hzvs.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1amn-0007qN-Ly for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:56:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1amm-0006W5-W6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:56:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8736o0hzvs.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: de-LU List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: Guix-devel On 03/06/2019 02:54 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > + ,@(if (string-prefix? "powerpc9-" targe= t) > + ;; On POWER9 we need this because= XXX. > + '("--with-long-double-128") > + '()) > + It needs to be ppc64el I think. I will later do a test in a big endian=20 vm. POWER9 is a bi-endian architecture, and most distros only support=20 little-endian. POWER4 only supports big-endian, and is still supported=20 by some distros. After testing I will send an updated patch. Tobias