> On Jun 25, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: > > On 06/24/2015 08:36 PM, James O'Connor wrote: >> >> >> Next steps involve resolving some toolchain hiccups. c7 binutils fails to build with Fedora 22 gcc-5.1 and c7 gcc.ppc64 fails to build because Fedora 22 doesn’t have a 32-bit libc.so.6 needed for multilib gcc. To preserve the RHEL 7 ppc/ppc64 multilib environment a few interim c7 gcc/glibc builds will be needed. >> >> Happy to share any configuration steps or help do the work on official CentOS infrastructure as we move forward with an altarch-power64 SIG. > > You're going to run into issues like this every step of the way. I'd > probably recommend using f21 as a base to build from, as it's quite a > bit closer to el7 than f22 is. This will help you avoid some of the > gcc4->gcc5 issues you're already running into. > I got past the 32-bit glibc issue but I can move back to Fedora 21 easy enough. What’s another 50GB of rpms :) Fedora 19 would be closest to RHEL 7 but doesn’t have ppc64le support. Fedora 20 was the last with ppc (32-bit) and Fedora 21 was the first with ppc64le.