I posted about this 5 days ago on ppc list [1], but have had no response. I tried to get some attention on #fedora-ppc today, also with no success. I am failing miserably to get the attention of any of the PPC folks, so I am trying email here to see if this will work. GCL is failing to build sometimes on ppc64/ppc64le. I have had both successful [2] and unsuccessful [3] builds. Both of those build logs contain lots of extra debugging junk I threw in so I could gather information on what is going on. Here's the critical part. The "uname -a" invocation I added at the top of %build always shows a 3.14 kernel when the build succeeds and always shows a 3.16 kernel when the build fails. I believe there is a bug in the 3.16 ppc64/ppc64le kernels on (some of?) the builders. The bug, whatever it is, is causing spurious mprotect() failures. If somebody can either confirm or deny that, I am very interested. I have not had this problem on any other architecture. Thank you. Footnotes: [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ppc/2014-October/003024.html [2] http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2138082 [3] http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2138060 -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
