[Debian-ppc64-devel] My iMac crashed when creating a ppc64 chroot

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

thank you for reporting this problem.

Charles Plessy wrote:
> The command I used was cut-and-pasted from the ppc64 readme:
>
> debootstrap --arch ppc64  sid ppc64.chroot \
>   http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4

> Anyway, this 32/64 bit problem prompted us to check wether the package
> builds on a 64-bit environnement, as it is the kind on software which
> could benefit of this (although it is a bit unclear). That is why I
> tried to build a 64-bit chroot on my G5 (is it the right way to do it?)

Yes, the debootstrap command is the correct one to create a ppc64 
chroot environment.

> Of course, if you tell me that crashes are to be expected, then it
> probably does not make sense to try to build it, as it would anyway not
> be useful...

The above debootstrap command works on my PowerMac G5 1.8GHz. Other
people are using it on OpenPower machines and I did not hear
anything about crashes before. Which kernel are you using?

Anyway, I prepared and uploaded a ppc64 chroot environment at

http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/ppc64-chroot.tar.bz2

Perhaps you could unpack this on your machine and try if that one
works for you.

Regards
Andreas Jochens