deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian

Gabriel Paubert paubert at iram.es
Fri Sep 5 17:13:44 EST 2014


On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le.  This

Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?

> is the default architecture used by Ubuntu for powerpc.
> 
> The below checks the kernel config to see if we are compiling little
> endian and sets the Debian arch appropriately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index 35d5a58..6f4a1af 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ create_package() {
>  	s390*)
>  		debarch=s390$(grep -q CONFIG_64BIT=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo x || true) ;;
>  	ppc*)
> -		debarch=powerpc ;;
> +		debarch=$(grep -q CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo ppc64el || echo powerpc) ;;
>  	parisc*)
>  		debarch=hppa ;;
>  	mips*)


	Gabriel


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