Re: [PATCH] configure: Fix building on a ppc64 host with Clang

[Thomas Huth]

On 01/03/2022 18.22, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 3/1/22 15:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 1/3/22 14:27, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > Clang only supports the -mlittle-endian and -mbig-endian switches,
> > > and not -mlittle / -mbig. Since GCC supports both, let's use the
> > > long versions that are supported by both instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >   configure | 4 ++--
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/configure b/configure
> > > index c56ed53ee3..81618708e4 100755
> > > --- a/configure
> > > +++ b/configure
> > > @@ -630,10 +630,10 @@ case "$cpu" in
> > >     ppc)
> > >       CPU_CFLAGS="-m32" ;;
> > >     ppc64)
> > > -    CPU_CFLAGS="-m64 -mbig" ;;
> > > +    CPU_CFLAGS="-m64 -mbig-endian" ;;
> > >     ppc64le)
> > >       cpu="ppc64"
> > > -    CPU_CFLAGS="-m64 -mlittle" ;;
> > > +    CPU_CFLAGS="-m64 -mlittle-endian" ;;
> > >     s390)
> > >       CPU_CFLAGS="-m31" ;;
> >
> > Mirek sent a similar fix, but it was pending Matheus TCG fixes:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220131091714.4825-1-mrezanin@redhat.com/
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2022-02/msg00116.html
>
> Yes.
>
> I kept it for later because I understood there were still problems
> with clang. May be I am wrong. Matheus ?

As far as I can see, there are some additional problems with the TCG tests, 
but the patch to the configure script is already required if the user only 
want to compile the main QEMU binaries. So I'd recommend to go ahead and 
queue Miroslav's patch already, the TCG tests can still be fixed on top later.

 Thomas