Ppc64p7subarch

ppc64p7 subarch page

The intent of this page is to track progress and packages in Fedora that have been optimized for POWER7 using the ppc64p7 subarch.

Package	Status	Comments	Recommendation (for packages with comments)	Enabled on SHADOWBUILD-f18-build (2012/08/08)
zlib	Builds with no edit			yes
bzip2	Builds with no edit			yes
xz	Builds with no edits			yes
libxml2	Builds with no edit			yes
pcre	Builds with no edit			yes
httpd	Builds with no edit			yes
mysql	Builds with no edit but see comments	Has 2 ppc64 ifarches # multilib header hacks # hack to let 32- and 64-bit tests run concurrently on same build machine	Can safely ignore. Both instances use uname -i and it should always be ppc64	yes
php	Builds with no edit			yes
postgresql	Builds with no edit but see comments	Has 1 ppc64 ifarch # multilib header hack; note pg_config.h is installed in two places!	Can safely ignore. Both instances use uname -i and it should always be ppc64	yes
sendmail	Builds with no edit but see comments	--- sendmail.spec.orig 2012-05-04 12:38:25.028843180 -0400 +++ sendmail.spec 2012-05-04 12:38:49.848843180 -0400 @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ #' cat >> redhat.config.m4 << EOF -%ifarch ppc ppc64 s390x +%ifarch ppc %{power64} s390x APPENDDEF(\`confOPTIMIZE', \`-DSM_CONF_SHM=0') %else APPENDDEF(\`confOPTIMIZE', \`')	Use %{power64} macro	yes
postfix	Builds with no edit			yes
pam	Builds with no edit			yes
binutils	Requires trivial patch to spec to set target_platform	--- binutils.spec.orig 2012-03-16 11:41:47.000000000 -0400 +++ binutils.spec 2012-04-28 11:15:10.972120664 -0400 @@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ done touch */configure +%ifarch %{power64} +%define _target_platform %{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_host_os} +%endif + + %build echo target is %{binutils_target} export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" @@ -203,7 +208,6 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O0 -ggdb2" %define enable_shared 0 %endif - # We could optimize the cross builds size by --enable-shared but the produced # binaries may be less convenient in the embedded environment. %configure \	use the macro to set binutils_target	yes
openssl	Builds with trivial patch to spec to set ssl_arch	--- a/openssl.spec +++ b/openssl.spec @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ # Arches on which we need to prevent arch conflicts on opensslconf.h, must # also be handled in opensslconf-new.h. -%define multilib_arches %{ix86} ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 x86_64 +%define multilib_arches %{ix86} ia64 ppc %{power64} s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 x86_64 Summary: A general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation Name: openssl @@ -213,7 +213,11 @@ sslarch="linux-s390x" %ifarch %{arm} sh3 sh4 sslarch=linux-generic32 %endif -# ia64, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 are OK by default +%ifarch %{power64} +sslarch=linux-ppc64 +%endif + +# ia64, x86_64, and ppc are OK by default # Configure the build tree. Override OpenSSL defaults with known-good defaults # usable on all platforms. The Configure script already knows to use -fPIC and # RPM_OPT_FLAGS, so we can skip specifiying them here.	use the macro to set sslarch	yes
gcc	debugging build problem
glibc	builds with some spec changes		Use the macro and do some cleanup in the spec.
python	Requires trivial patch to build	|---- python.spec.orig 2012-05-04 12:55:56.578843180 -0400 +++ python.spec 2012-05-04 12:57:05.238843180 -0400 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ %global with_systemtap 1 # some arches dont have valgrind so we need to disable its support on them -%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390x +%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc %{power64} s390x %global with_valgrind 1 %else %global with_valgrind 0 @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ %patch130 -p1 -%ifarch ppc ppc64 +%ifarch ppc %{power64} %patch131 -p1 %endif @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ BuildPython debug \ python-debug \ python%{pybasever}-debug \ -%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc ppc64 +%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc %{power64} "--with-pydebug --with-tsc --with-count-allocs --with-call-profile" \ %else "--with-pydebug --with-count-allocs --with-call-profile" \ @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ %global _pyconfig32_h pyconfig-32.h %global _pyconfig64_h pyconfig-64.h -%ifarch ppc64 s390x x86_64 ia64 alpha sparc64 +%ifarch %{power64} s390x x86_64 ia64 alpha sparc64 %global _pyconfig_h %{_pyconfig64_h} %else %global _pyconfig_h %{_pyconfig32_h} @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ # Install a tapset for this libpython into tapsetdir, fixing up the path to the # library: mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{tapsetdir} -%ifarch ppc64 s390x x86_64 ia64 alpha sparc64 +%ifarch %{power64} s390x x86_64 ia64 alpha sparc64 %global libpython_stp_optimized libpython%{pybasever}-64.stp %global libpython_stp_debug libpython%{pybasever}-debug-64.stp %else	Use the macro	yes
python3	as above			yes
kernel	defer to updates for F18?			yes
mesa	Up for consideration		Requires no spec changes