Re: powerpc and powerpc64 builds broken

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 June 2015 at 15:52, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 Jun 2015, at 19:09 , Justin Hibbits <jhibbits_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2015, at 10:48, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Both powerpc and powerpc64 builds are broken in the same way, in
>>>>> usr.bin/mkesdb.  It was working correctly as of just before BSDCan, I
>>>>> successfully built world and kernel on June 6.
>>>>>
>>>>> The error seen at this point is:
>>>>
>>>> - What does file say when you run it on libc.so.7?
>>>
>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.7: ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
>>> 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked,
>>> not stripped
>>>
>>>> - What's your current revision?
>>>
>>> r284893
>>>
>>>> - Does it work when SRCCONF/__MAKECONF are set to /dev/null?
>>>
>>> No, the problem remains.
>>
>> I have not see this problem in my endless tinderbox run;
>> I know the crossbuilds succeeded with r284913.
>
> Yeah, crossbuilds work fine. It's the actual run-on-real-hardware bit
> that doesn't.
>
> (powerpc64 runs fine in qemu-devel; people should try it!)

r284345 (introduction of metamode) is the problem.  I bisected it on
the power8 and it reliably fails this way.  Andreas tested it on his
G4 (32-bit hardware) and it worked fine, so there's something
introduced that just doesn't like powerpc64.

- Justin