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I am forwarding this upstream from Debian bug 644338: http://bugs.debian.org/644338 Please see the following URL for more information about the port: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort Your comments, suggestions, and critiques are highly appreciated. Cheers, Kyle Moffett > From: "Moffett, Kyle D" <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> > Date: October 04, 2011 18:12:27 EDT > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: libffi: Build errors on PowerPC e500, test-suite failures on PowerPC soft-float > > Package: libffi > Severity: normal > Tags: patch upstream > User: debian-powerpcspe@breakpoint.cc > Usertags: powerpcspe > > The Debian-Ports "powerpcspe" architecture can't currently build the > libffi package for a couple reasons: > > (1) The package contains lots of FP assembly instructions even when > built on a soft-float target, resulting in compile errors on the > Debian powerpcspe architecture (totally different FPU ops). > > (2) The existing soft-float support code has buggy handling of 128-bit > values and results in testsuite failures on soft-float and e500 > (powerpcspe) platforms even when it can be made to compile. > > The attached patch resolves both issues. > > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett >
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