Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port

[Mike Frysinger]

On 01 Feb 2016 14:29, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> On 02/01/2016 12:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 29 Jan 2016 19:55, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> >> On 01/29/2016 07:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On 29 Jan 2016 19:28, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> >>>> Regarding the issue with pcitutils, it is indeed and issue with gold. It
> >>>> turns out udev is broken as well, as in it wont start.
> >>>>
> >>>> binutils has supposedly fixed this issue upstream, i may try to emerge
> >>>> 9999 later tonight. perhaps eudev fairs a bit better than udev? Would
> >>>> there be any issue with moving to eudev as a default?
> >>> arches should not be picking any defaults like udev.  we should be using
> >>> the same default across all linux systems.  especially if the only point
> >>> is to workaround a bug in gold.
> >>>
> >>> is the fix in binutils-2.26 ?  that's going into the tree in a bit ...
> >>> i'm waiting for some feedback from upstream before i push it.
> >>
> >> I can check to see if the fix is in .26, but eudev does work without
> >> issue for what it's worth. pciutils is also compiling without issue with
> >> eudev.
> >>
> >> I will try pulling 9999 and see if the issue is no longer there, if it's
> >> been resolved there then ill check into .26
> >>
> >> Without that fix, sparc64 is probably a no-go. I suppose we could always
> >> patch .25 if needed.
> >
> > why ?  as i said, gold is not the default, and we don't hold up issues
> > because of gold compatibility.  if sparc64 w/ld.bfd works fine, then
> > that's all we need.
>
> It looks like udev is hard coded to use gold, i may have to hack around
> with configure.ac to get it to compile with bfd.

OK, that's an important point :).  yes, we'll want to deploy a hack for
`use sparc` to the udev ebuild to disable the usage of gold.  should be
as simple as:
	if use sparc ; then
		sed -i 's:-Wl,-fuse-ld=gold::' configure.ac || die
	fi
-mike