Subject: bug#48055: Statically-linked packages fail to build on powerpc64le-linux

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:44:03 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 09:27:45AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> As of current master (d904abe0768293b2322dbf355b6e41d94e769d78),
>> statically-linked packages required by ‘bootstrap-tarballs’ fail to
>> build on powerpc64le-linux.  For example:

[...]

> What version of GCC is being used? Perhaps the gcc in make-bootstrap.scm
> needs to be told to use 128-bit long longs.

D’oh, for /gnu/store/qr6wzh818417zmswip1nlf6jglyp7fh2-bzip2-1.0.8.drv
for instance, it’s GCC 5.  How come?

Indeed, make-bootstrap.scm refers to ‘gcc-5’ everywhere.  We should
change it to match ‘gcc-final’, no?  (That probably won’t make it into
‘version-1.3.0’ but we can do that on ‘master’.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.