[CentOS-devel] [altarch] multiarch docker images

[Jim Perrin]

On 01/14/2016 01:22 PM, Jason Furmanek wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/14/2016 10:13 AM, Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>> On 14/01/2016 16:29, Manfred Touron wrote:
>> > For now I failed to build the `ppc64` nor `ppc64le` images, but
>> that's not a > priority.
>> Manfred,
>> If I am correct, docker is requiring golang packages which are not yet
>> available for Centos 7.2 on ppc64/ppc64le.
>>
> That is true, however, gccgo might be an option for ppc64/ppc64le.
> Ubuntu uses gccgo to provide Docker packages for their ppc64le distro.

gccgo requires gcc 4.9.x at minimum and for more recent docker versions
you'd need gcc 5.1.1 or 5.2.x. Since the distro gcc is 4.8.3, that's not
really workable.

In theory, golang 1.5 has experimental support for ppc64 and ppc64le. We
can certainly try to bootstrap golang from x86_64 to ppc64le the same
way we did for aarch64.



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