Re: [Freeipmi-devel] freeipmi : Request to spin up a new version of freeipmi with ppc64le support.

[Al Chu]

On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 08:17 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
> Hi Chandan,
> 
> I can do it for 1.3.4 and release a special tarball just for this newer
> libtool, and perhaps on-demand as it is needed.  But I cannot update the
> build process to use it everytime.

I should say ... can't update the build process to use it everytime
until it is more upstream in major distros.

Al

> Al
> 
> On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:53 +0530, Chandan wrote:
> > Hi Chu,
> > 
> > we are looking at new release tarball for distro to pick up of freeipmi.
> > We are looking at being able to point the pkg tarball to the distro such
> > that the pkg build in the distro build( that will obvious Little Endian
> > version of Power Linux) without further issues.
> > 
> > Currently available source tarball (freeipmi-1.3.4) on upstream uses the
> > libtool that does not have support for ppc64le arch and so the build
> > failed to generate the shared library.
> > So I am hoping you will use the alpha libtool and spin up a new version
> > of release tarball of "freeipmi" on upstream.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Chandan
> > On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 09:20 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
> > > Hi Chandan,
> > > 
> > > Are you looking for a one-time build w/ this new libtool so you can try
> > > it on ppc64le machines?  Or are you hoping I will use the newer libtool
> > > for future FreeIPMI releases?
> > > 
> > > The latter is more difficult for me todo, but I could do a one-off for
> > > ppc64le people to try out.
> > > 
> > > Is this related to any work going on at Redhat?  Within the last few
> > > months, several PPC related patches came from Redhat.
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 16:33 +0530, Chandan wrote:
> > > > Hi Albert,
> > > > 
> > > > We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC Little Endian)
> > > > architecture as part of which we are looking at all the packages that
> > > > need update.
> > > > 
> > > > I was looking at “freeipmi” (from repo: cvs -z3
> > > > -d:pserver:address@hidden:/web/freeipmi and
> > > > freeipmi-1.3.4 as well ) and was failed to build “freeipmi” on ppc64le
> > > > machine because of outdated libtool.
> > > > 
> > > > We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha source release that
> > > > has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le. A stable release
> > > > is expected soon.
> > > > 
> > > > You can pick up the libtool alpha source release from either of the
> > > > below :
> > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz   (1.6MB)
> > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz   (920KB)
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be possible for you to spin up a newer version of
> > > > "freeipmi" which would support ppc64le? by using alpha libtool
> > > > release?
> > > > 
> > > > I can help to validate the new release of the "freeipmi" works
> > > > well by compiling on ppc64le machine.
> > > > 
> > > > Appreciate your response.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Chandan
> > > > 
> > 
> > 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory