Re: Bug#1003847: binutils breaks glibc autopkgtest on ppc64el: unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb' (and others)

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2022-01-19 22:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Aurelien!
> 
> Unfortunately, glibc no longer builds with this change on powerpc and ppc64
> and kernel builds still fails on both targets:
> 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=glibc&arch=powerpc&ver=2.33-3&stamp=1642542048&raw=0
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=glibc&arch=ppc64&ver=2.33-3&stamp=1642542055&raw=0

The ppc64el fix is not the cause for those failures. Previous glibc
versions also do not build on powerpc and ppc64 following the binutils
snapshot upload to sid. It's just that more code got broken on powerpc
and ppc64 than on ppc64el. I have queued the backported fixes from
upstream for the next upload.

> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=powerpc&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642579068&raw=0
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=ppc64&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642578946&raw=0

Those failures are completely unrelated to do with glibc. A porter need
to fix the kernel code to make it compatible with the new binutils.

Cheers
Aurelien

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