On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:33:21PM +0100, Dan Horák wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:55:01 -0700
> Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:32 AM Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Another important thing I wanted to say is that we'd like to switch
> > > ppc64le from the numerically problematic IBM extended long double to
> > > IEEE 754 quad long double.  This is an ABI change.  Some libraries
> > > are already built so that they support both ABIs at the same time,
> > > including glibc, libstdc++, libgcc, libgfortran etc.
> > > For other libraries and binaries, the compiler, assembler and linker
> > > will notice if they use long double and flag them as using either
> > > IBM or IEEE long double and linker (or I think dynamic linker too)
> > > might complain when things are mixed.
> > > Right now the rawhide gcc still defaults to -mabi=ibmlongdouble
> > > but the glibc/gcc libraries are built compatibly with both.
> > > We'd like to configure gcc shortly before the mass rebuild with
> > > --with-long-double-format=ieee so that it will default to
> > > -mabi=ieeelongdouble, probably on a side-tag build first, and it
> > > will be highly desirable to rebuild at least some of the most commonly
> > > used library packages in the order of dependencies there, otherwise
> > > I'd be afraid the mass rebuild could fail for way too many packages
> > > (as the mass rebuild doesn't do dependency order rebuilds but just
> > > goes through packages alphabetically or so).
> > 
> > I don't know if this change is involved, but I've got several packages
> > that failed to build on ppc64le only, with what look like gcc
> > segfaults:
> > - dra2ter: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81482527
> > - libfplll: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81533813
> > - libpoly: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81536797
> > - mp: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81548297
> 
> ^^^ those are probably
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043517

I think you're right.  And #2043517 is the same as #2043357.

Marek
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