[OE-core] [[PATCH] libgpg-error: Support build for native on ppc64/ppc64le hosts

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:35 AM Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Both RHEL and SLES uses ppc64/ppc64le for powerpc 64 bit big/little
> endian targets instead of powerpc64/powerpc64le in libgpg-error.
>
> Also libgpg-error provides common target system names in form like
> <arch>-unknown-linux-gnu.
>
> Add mapping for ppc64/ppc64le targets to their libgpg-error equivalents
> to fix native builds.
>
> Cross build for arm64 tested on IBM Power 8 machine with RHEL7 for
> ppc64le variant only, but should work for ppc64 as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych at gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.32.bb | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.32.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.32.bb
> index 4f3e3d8..8fc95cc 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.32.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.32.bb
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ do_compile_prepend() {
>           mips*el)    TUPLE=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu ;;
>           mips*)      TUPLE=mips-unknown-linux-gnu ;;
>           x86_64)     TUPLE=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu ;;
> +         ppc64*)     TUPLE=powerpc${TARGET_ARCH#ppc}-unknown-linux-gnu ;;

if this works with dash shell then its ok. Otherwise just being
explicit might be better and do we have a variable to indicate
endianness in siteinfo bbclass called SITEINFO_ENDIANNESS

>           *)          TUPLE=${TARGET_ARCH}-unknown-linux-gnu ;;
>         esac
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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