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

[Chandan]

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 machine because of outdated libtool.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
> >