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From:   Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:23:22 -0500
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Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> I've been trying to setup your test suite on my powerpc board but it's
> based on Perl and on a lot of optional Perl packages. I was able to add
> them one by one until some of them require some .so libraries
> (Pathtools-Cwd), and it seems nothing is made to allow cross building
> those libraries.
>
> Do you have another test suite based on C and not perl ?
>
> If not, what can I do, do you know how I can cross compile those Perl
> packages for PPC32 ?

Is there no Linux distribution that supports PPC32?  I would think
that would be the easiest path forward, but you're the PPC32 expert -
not me - so I'll assume you already tried that or it didn't work for
other reasons.

I'm also not a Perl expert, but it looks like PathTools is part of the
core Perl5 release, have you tried that?

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/tree/blead/dist/PathTools

Finally, no, our only really maintained test suite is the Perl based
one; there have been other efforts over the years but they were never
properly supported and fell out of use (and applicability).  At some
point you/someone was able to run the test suite, why isn't that
working now?  Or was it a different powerpc ABI?

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com