Re: Bug#825110: ppc64 patch for yaboot FTBFS and e2fslibs1.41-dev
I just installed Debian PPC64 on my PowerMac G5 and yaboot will not load the kernel. I know in Gentoo they have a separate yaboot package for PPC64 that I was able load the Gentoo PPC64 kernel with. My plan was to load the Gentoo LiveCD mount the Debian filesystem and re-run yabootconfig. However the LiveCD did not recognize the filesystem so I am out of luck.
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> On Jun 6, 2016, at 11:23 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> unarchive 322540
> reopen 322540 1.3.17-3
> tags 322540 patch
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:17:20AM -0400, wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:07:31PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>> I understand your point for ppc64el, but since `yaboot` gets build on
>>>> ppc64, some users may break their systems...
>>>
>>> According to buildd, it fails to build on ppc64 (not surprising since
>>> it requires 32bit static libraries to link). yaboot does not currently
>>> exist in the archive for anything other than 32bit powerpc. So there
>>> is no reason for it to even attempt to build on 64bit.
>>
>> Well in case anyone wants to try and fix it, these patches seem to fix
>> yaboot build on ppc64:
>>
>> diff -urN yaboot-1.3.17.orig/debian/control yaboot-1.3.17/debian/control
>> --- yaboot-1.3.17.orig/debian/control 2015-11-02 02:54:41.000000000 +0000
>> +++ yaboot-1.3.17/debian/control 2016-06-06 15:36:46.000000000 +0000
>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>> Priority: important
>> Maintainer: Debootloaders Yaboot Maintainers Team <debootloaders-yaboot@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Uploaders: Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag@debian.org>, Milan Kupcevic <milan@debian.org>
>> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), e2fslibs1.41-dev
>> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), e2fslibs1.41-dev, libc6-dev-powerpc [ppc64]
>> Standards-Version: 3.9.6
>> Homepage: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org
>>
>>
>> diff -urN e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14.orig/debian/rules e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14/debian/rules
>> --- e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14.orig/debian/rules 2015-11-02 02:20:29.000000000 +0000
>> +++ e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14/debian/rules 2016-06-06 15:56:42.000000000 +0000
>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>>
>> export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=-stackprotector
>> export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND=-fgnu89-inline -fno-builtin-malloc
>> +export CC:=$(CC) -m32
>>
>> %:
>> dh $@ --with autotools-dev
>> @@ -11,10 +12,18 @@
>> override_dh_auto_install:
>> dh_auto_install --destdir=debian/tmp -- install-libs
>>
>> +override_dh_auto_build:
>> + dh_auto_build -- libs
>> +
>> override_dh_auto_clean:
>> dh_auto_clean
>> rm -f asm_types.h public_config.h
>>
>> +override_dh_auto_test:
>> +
>> +override_dh_auto_configure:
>> + dh_auto_configure -- --host=powerpc-linux-gnu --target=powerpc-linux-gnu
>> +
>> get-orig-source:
>> wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/1.41.14/e2fsprogs-1.41.14.tar.gz \
>> -O e2fsprogs1.41_1.41.14.orig.tar.gz
>>
>> The fix is that since yaboot is always built 32bit, then on ppc64 we
>> better build-dep on the 32bit libc headers and stuff, and when building
>> the e2fslibs it has to be built 32bit, not 64bit, since yaboot is the
>> only user and it is building 32bit. While at it I made it stop building
>> all the other crap that wasn't actually being packaged since it was
>> taking too long to build.
>>
>> I am not entirely pleased with the CC variable as a way to pass the
>> -m32 needed, but it seems to work. Maybe someone can see a cleaner way
>> (maybe the configure command somehow) to do that.
>>
>> I would have sent this to bug 322540 since that is the ppc64 yaboot
>> bug, but for some reason it is closed and archived even though it never
>> actually worked and was never actually built on ppc64. That seems like
>> a mistake.
>
> Fixed ! I do not believe using #825110 make sense. Thanks for the patch !
>
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