Re: [Libunwind-devel] Power Libunwind

[prasun3]

I did as you said and it tried to look for libunwind-ppc32.h! This is
on a cell running Fedora Core 5 Linux ppc64

On 8/2/07, Jose Flavio Aguilar Paulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem is that the new configure.sh is not available updated in
> Git.
> To make it build easily just
> delete the files:
> Makefile.in
> src/Makefile.in
> tests/Makefile.in
> after that run autoconf and automake in libuniwnd root dir.
> then you can run configure... the correct arch to detect would be
> "ppc64"!
>
> any doubts, just say, I would be glad to help,
> Jose Flavio A. Paulino
> IBM Ltc Brazil Toolchain Team
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:56 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > I'm facing problems with my build because the configure detects the
> > platform as powerpc64 instead of ppc64 and looks for files named
> > *powerpc64* instead of *ppc64*
> >
> > Is there a way to configure this?
> >
> > Also, does this patch apply to 32-bit Power3 AIX too?
> >
> > On 8/2/07, Jose Flavio Aguilar Paulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi David!
> > >
> > > Its very good to have power main stream!
> > > Now I will do more complex tests and maybe incremental fixes!
> > >
> > > The only last problem is that you didnt run autoconf and automake, or
> > > didnt have removed Makefile.in, /src/Makefile.in and /tests/Makefile.in
> > >
> > > If you could do that and commit this files, I would be glad!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Flavio
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:01 -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> > > > Jose,
> > > >
> > > > This patch looks good to me.  I merged it and pushed it into the git
> > > > tree.  I only did a build on x86 so no real testing on my end, but I
> > > > figured you were eager to see it in GIT so we can start doing
> > > > incremental fixes. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Documentation updates are definitely welcome, too!
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know if you see any issues.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >   --david
> > > >
> > > > On 8/2/07, Jose Flavio Aguilar Paulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >         Well, if the symbol has the the address of the function
> > > >         pointer, it is
> > > >         not a problem, I removed all get_function_address!
> > > >
> > > >         Well, remember to do autoconf and automake.
> > > >         And if possible, in libunwind page write this build
> > > >         instructions:
> > > >         CC='gcc -m64 -maltivec' ../libunwind/configure && make -j2
> > > >
> > > >         regards,
> > > >         Flávio
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 07:27 -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> > > >         > On 8/2/07, Jose Flavio Aguilar Paulino <address@hidden>
> > > >         wrote:
> > > >         >         because when the symbol is a function, and you are
> > > >         looking for
> > > >         >         it, we
> > > >         >         have the following:
> > > >         >         val = sym->st_value;
> > > >         >
> > > >         >         but, in Power (I don't know how it works in IA64),
> > > >         this value
> > > >         >         would be
> > > >         >         the address of entry in the table, not the address
> > > >         of the
> > > >         >         symbol, so the
> > > >         >         look up will fail.
> > > >         >
> > > >         > Why is that a problem?  On ia64, we also return the address
> > > >         of the
> > > >         > function descriptor.  That *is* the value of a function
> > > >         pointer, after
> > > >         > all.  I guess I'm still not following.
> > > >         >
> > > >         >
> > > >         >
> > > >         >   --david
> > > >         > --
> > > >         > Mosberger Consulting LLC,
> > > >         http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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