[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] sdl: fix building on powerpc64 and powerpc64le

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:49:50 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:

> > We've got quite a lot of build failures because of that. In the latest
> > autobuild report, we've got 7 build failures on powerpc64le (on a total
> > of 41 build failures), and I suspect a significant number of them are
> > due to this libtool issue.  
> 
> Sorry I've been quiet but I've been working on this :-)

Great!

> I've built and used scripts to scan about 1,000 packages, and it looks
> like about 100 of them have this problem. I'll post an RFC patch shortly
> and answer your questions, above.

OK. Arnout has also posted a great summary of the possible solutions.
It's great to have the info that about 10% of the packages seem to be
affected, this sort of number can help in choosing between the
different options we have.

> However, I've also run into several failures that are different issues,
> so this isn't going to fix them all.

Sure, that's expected and perfectly OK.

Thomas
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