[swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform

[Meghali Dhoble]

Hi John,
No, I haven't made any changes for Clang. What specific changes you think I
need to have for Clang?

One observation I have for LLVM and  Clang that even though I have
installed them directly using "apt-get install" ; the build-script looks
for the SRC_ROOT/llvm and llvm/tools/clang folders. Also the build-script
runs the build on top of these folders.
I understand if we have system installed dependencies then those should be
used instead of the building it from source; please correct me if I am
wrong here.

PS: As of now I am building using -m option, the build command
is:  ./utils/build-script -m -R

Thanks,
Meghali



From:	John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>
To:	Meghali Dhoble <dhoblem at us.ibm.com>
Cc:	Graydon Hoare <ghoare at apple.com>, swift-dev
            <swift-dev at swift.org>
Date:	09/07/2017 12:29 AM
Subject:	Re: [swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform
Sent by:	rjmccall at apple.com



      On Sep 6, 2017, at 3:28 AM, Meghali Dhoble <dhoblem at us.ibm.com>
      wrote:


      Thanks John, for the response.
      We have a patch added already for ppc64 support at llvm, however
      still the failures seen,


Did you change Clang?

John.


      I will try to opt for 2nd option and see if that helps.

      Thanks,
      Meghali

      <graycol.gif>John McCall ---08/28/2017 09:59:28 PM---> On Aug 28,
      2017, at 9:08 AM, Meghali Dhoble via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org>
      wrote: > Hi,

      From: John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>
      To: Meghali Dhoble <dhoblem at us.ibm.com>
      Cc: swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org>, Graydon Hoare <ghoare at apple.com>
      Date: 08/28/2017 09:59 PM
      Subject: Re: [swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform
      Sent by: rjmccall at apple.com




                  On Aug 28, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Meghali Dhoble via swift-dev
                  <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:


                  Hi,
                  I have been working towards getting the swift source code
                  built on my power (ppc64le) platform on Ubuntu16.04 OS.
                  I am observing build issues and looking for some help
                  here. Please redirect me if this is not the right place
                  for these questions.

                  I would like to understand the pre-requisites and the
                  hardware configurations required to build this language.
                  The error I am getting look like memory issues as the
                  process is being killed abruptly. I am attaching the log
                  herewith for reference.


      I don't see anything like that in the log. It looks like an ordinary
      compiler error relating to our custom calling convention.

      You need to either
      1. implement swiftcc in LLVM's ppc64 backend and then teach Clang
      that it's legal there or
      2. configure Swift to not try to use it.

      In the short term, I suspect that (2) is the right approach. Graydon
      was at least thinking about doing some work recently that would be
      aimed at making it easier to do this kind of configuration; CC'ing
      him explicitly to see if there's been progress there.

      John.


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