PowerPC, f22 and docker-io

[Dan Horák]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:22:17 +0000
Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Josh Boyer
> <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Jakub Cajka <jcajka at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>   as we have gcc5 with gcc-go in f22, I have tried to build
> >> docker-io on both 64bit BE and LE. It does build, even test are
> >> failing in same way as on x86 :). Only man pages are missing as
> >> golang-github-cpuguy83-go-md2man is missing due to dependency on
> >> golang.
> >>
> >>   I haven't tried to do any actual testing, as there are no
> >> fedora-ppc images for docker yet.
> >>
> >>   Bit rough fedora git patch fellows.(clean solution also depends
> >> how gcc-go will be handled in fedora)(should apply cleanly against
> >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/commit/?id=b12666ec5e3079729bc3221ceb6768102a39f4f4)
> >
> > Did you send this patch to the docker-io package maintainers or
> > open a bug?  Fedora secondary architectures build from the
> > canonical Fedora pkg-git repos, so this would need to be applied
> > there before PowerPC can pick it up.
> 
> There's still a lot more work to be done before we can send it up
> stream, at the moment it's just to provide a central starting point
> for testing locally before bundling it all together to enable in
> mainline.
> 
> There's also conversations to be had as to had as to whether we move
> all archtectures to gcc-go or wait for golang 1.5 in (probably) F-23
> and just use that. It's too late for F-22 cycle anyway IMO.

yes, as Peter says, it is an exercise to play with and eventually get it
integrated


		Dan