[oe] PHP on PPC little-endian? Conflicts w/ ncurses big-endian

[Eliyahu Skoczylas]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:05:11 +0200, "Koen Kooi"
<k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> said:
> Your host autoreconf (most likely i386) is trying to link with target 
> libncurses (ppc405). I'm not sure how you expect that to work when 
> changing that to LE ppc binaries.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen

Yes, I saw that.
> > ...  The problem is that PHP (or at
> > least autoreconf for PHP) wants little-endian.

Note the place that the log data is coming from:
> >> ... (/tmp/OE_temp-new/work/ppc405-linux/php-5.2.6-r2/temp/log.do_configure.26285)

This is in the target stage (ppc405-linux) instead of the host stage
(i686-linux).

My question is better stated as:

+++ Why is php-5.2.6-r2 (and php-5.2.0-r1 before it) using a HOST
autoreconf when building (and linking to) a TARGET binary?

Thanks for helping me to clarify that.

-    Eliyahu

> On 07-10-2008 12:16, Eliyahu Skoczylas wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm building for PPC405 (using a new machine .conf that I'll upload when
> > the board is released).
> >
> > So far, everything has built and run successfully, but I just tried
> > adding in PHP.
> >
> > Every time it conflicts with libncurses:
> >> NOTE: package php-5.2.6-r2: task do_configure: started
> >> ERROR: function do_configure failed
> >> ERROR: log data follows (/tmp/OE_temp-new/work/ppc405-linux/php-5.2.6-r2/temp/log.do_configure.26285)
> >> | automake (GNU automake) 1.9.3
> >>    <snip>
> >> | AUTOV is 1.9
> >> | NOTE: Executing autoreconf --verbose --install --force --exclude=autopoint -I/tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.9 -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal
> >> | sh: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
> >> | autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> >> | autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> >> | autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.9 -I /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/share/aclocal --force
> >> | acinclude.m4:1089: warning: underquoted definition of PHP_CHECK_SIZEOF
> >> |   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
> >> |   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> >> | sh: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/OE_temp-new/staging/powerpc-linux/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
> 
> Your host autoreconf (most likely i386) is trying to link with target 
> libncurses (ppc405). I'm not sure how you expect that to work when 
> changing that to LE ppc binaries.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
> 
> >> | aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 127
> >> | autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 127
> >> | FATAL: autoreconf execution failed.
> >> NOTE: Task failed: /tmp/OE_temp-new/work/ppc405-linux/php-5.2.6-r2/temp/log.do_configure.26285
> >> NOTE: package php-5.2.6-r2: task do_configure: failed
> >> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> >> NOTE: package php-5.2.6: failed
> >> ERROR: Build of /home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb do_configure failed
> >> ERROR: Task 4 (/home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb, do_configure) failed
> >> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 253 tasks of which 253 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
> >> ERROR: '/home/eliyahu/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/php/php_5.2.6.bb' failed
> >
> > At first I thought it was a problem with ncurses, and I tried rebuilding
> > using older recipes and version of ncurses, but no luck.
> > (And why does PHP need ncurses, anyway?)
> > But suddenly it hit me - this is the target version for ppc405, and
> > libncurses.so.5 is CORRECTLY big-endian.  The problem is that PHP (or at
> > least autoreconf for PHP) wants little-endian.
> >
> > Has no one built PHP recently for a big-endian platform?  Besides the
> > php-5.2.6-r2 in .dev, I also tried php-5.2.0-r1 from .stable and got the
> > same thing.
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > -    Eliyahu
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