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Re: Request to spin new release of libffi to support ppc64le arch
- From: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- To: isha vishnoi <ishav at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org, Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:39:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: Request to spin new release of libffi to support ppc64le arch
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Hi Isha,
I tried this. Please refer to the git repo at
http://github.com/atgreen/libffi.
Thanks,
AG
isha vishnoi <ishav@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a new architecture - ppc64le (powerpc 64-bit Little
> Endian) and building latest Libffi package downloaded from
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.13.tar.gz on our ppc64le
> environment.
>
> I found that it doesn't build on ppc64le ( IBM PowerPC New
> Architecture for Little Endian ) because it was generated using an
> outdated version of Libtool.
>
> We have worked with Libtool maintainer to get alpha release that
> supports ppc64le platform.
> For the same, stable release is expected by end of the year.
>
> Can you please spin off a new version of your package using the alpha
> Libtool release.
>
> Libtool alpha release is available in below mention sites :
>
> 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)
>
> Please let me know if you need any help.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Isha Vishnoi