Re: Bug#823224: ld: arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file: No such file or directory

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:04:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 22:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi Mathieu!
> > 
> > I'm now running into exactly this problem when trying to build the SPL library
> > on a native ppc64 system for ZFS-on-Linux, see below.
> > 
> > Can you give me a pointer on how to resolve this issue?
> > 
> > configure:15763: checking whether modules can be built
> > configure:15786: cp conftest.c build && make modules -C /usr/src/linux-headers-4.13.0-1-powerpc64 EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Werror-implicit-function-declaration
> > M=/home/glaubitz/zfstests/spl/build
> > /bin/sh: 1: /usr/src/linux-headers-4.13.0-1-common/scripts/ld-version.sh: not found
> > /bin/sh: 1: [: -ge: unexpected operator
> > ld: cannot find arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file or directory
> [...]
> 
> This is a different problem.  powerpc 64-bit builds have started using
> that script since 4.13:
> 
> commit efe0160cfd40a99c052a00e174787c1f4158a9cd
> Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri May 12 01:56:52 2017 +1000
> 
>     powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions for modules
> 
> So we should either ship the script or patch out the version test.

Is this still an issue for us or can the bug be closed?

Regards,
Salvatore