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Bug 1204876 - ocaml-camlp4 doesn't build on ppc64/ppc
Summary: ocaml-camlp4 doesn't build on ppc64/ppc
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ocaml-camlp4
Version: 22
Hardware: ppc64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: PPCTracker F-ExcludeArch-ppc64le, PPC64LETracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-23 16:35 UTC by Than Ngo
Modified: 2015-03-31 21:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-03-31 21:52:36 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Than Ngo 2015-03-23 16:35:30 UTC 
ocaml-camlp4 doesn't build on ppc64/ppc64

/usr/bin/ocamlopt.opt -c -g -w a -I camlp4/import -warn-error A-3 -I camlp4/config -I camlp4/boot -o camlp4/boot/camlp4boot.cmx camlp4/boot/camlp4boot.ml
File "camlp4/boot/camlp4boot.ml", line 3, characters 9-15:
Error: Unbound module Camlp4

For more infos please take a look at http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/kojifiles/work/tasks/3941/2443941/build.log
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-03-23 16:49:58 UTC 
The actual error is:

Command got signal -10.

which is probably some kind of bus error (although 'man 7 signal'
says SIGUSR1 which is pretty weird).

Anyway, OCaml does generally work on ppc64 & ppc64le, and we even
maintain a special downstream backend for that.  What hardware is this?
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-03-23 16:50:47 UTC 
Also please enable core dumps and grab the stack trace.
Comment 3 Dan Horák 2015-03-23 17:39:46 UTC 
Than, have you tried the build with a larger stack? We saw situations when the default was too low and "ulimit -s 65536" helped to workaround the issue.
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-03-23 17:55:35 UTC 
(In reply to Dan Horák from comment #3)
> Than, have you tried the build with a larger stack? We saw situations when
> the default was too low and "ulimit -s 65536" helped to workaround the issue.

Yup, that's actually quite likely to be the problem.  If it
turns out to be this we'll have to modify the spec file.
Comment 5 Than Ngo 2015-03-24 11:27:53 UTC 
Hi Dan, Richard

yes, with "ulimit -s 65536", ocaml-camlp4 built fine. We should add the workaround in spec file so that it build correctly on ppc in the future.

Thanks,
Than
Comment 6 Than Ngo 2015-03-24 12:06:11 UTC 
i have modified the spec file in my local branch and did scratch build. it built fine now

http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2444438

it's the patch for the spec file.

diff --git a/ocaml-camlp4.spec b/ocaml-camlp4.spec
index f8cd276..b243b73 100644
--- a/ocaml-camlp4.spec
+++ b/ocaml-camlp4.spec
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ This package contains the development files.
 
 
 %build
+%ifarch %{power64} 
+ulimit -s 65536
+%endif
+
 ./configure
 # Incompatible with parallel builds:
 unset MAKEFLAGS
Comment 7 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-03-24 12:06:12 UTC 
Thanks for testing.  This is fixed in:

ocaml-camlp4-4.02.1-0.4.gitcf1935d3.fc23
ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-03-24 12:20:57 UTC 
ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-03-26 21:57:15 UTC 
Package ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4643/ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-03-31 21:52:36 UTC 
ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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