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------- Comment From edmondsw at us.ibm.com 2018-08-01 13:19 EDT-------
The reason for marking Won't Fix was given as the following:

> As greenlet 0.4.14 is not supported on 16.04, and there are newer LTS
> versions of Ubuntu available which are unaffected by this issue, we are
> marking this as "Won't fix".

Since this appears to be a gcc bug, not a greenlet bug, greenlet version
support is irrelevant.

As for there being newer LTS versions of Ubuntu available... 1) that's
not true for PowerVM systems, where Ubuntu 18.04 is not currently
supported and 2) long-term support for LTS releases does not end when a
newer LTS release is available. According to [1] 16.04 is still
supported into 2021.

So can we reopen this to get a gcc fix for 16.04?

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

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Title:
  greenlet 0.4.14 will not build on ppc64le

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Won't Fix
Status in gcc-5 package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - William M. Edmonds <edmondsw at us.ibm.com> - 2018-07-23 16:21:41 ==
  ---Problem Description---
  greenlet 0.4.14 will not build on ppc64le

  Opened https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet/issues/136 because
  attempting to build bdist_wheel for greenlet 0.4.14 on ppc64le Ubuntu
  16.04 LTS yields the following error:

  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'greenlet' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-ppc64le-2.7
  powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c greenlet.c -o build/temp.linux-ppc64le-2.7/greenlet.o -fno-tree-dominator-opts
  In file included from slp_platformselect.h:16:0,
                      from greenlet.c:343:
     platform/switch_ppc64_linux.h: In function 'slp_switch':
     platform/switch_ppc64_linux.h:80:5: error: PIC register clobbered by 'r30' in 'asm'
          __asm__ volatile ("" : : : REGS_TO_SAVE);
          ^
     platform/switch_ppc64_linux.h:95:5: error: PIC register clobbered by 'r30' in 'asm'
          __asm__ volatile ("" : : : REGS_TO_SAVE);
          ^
     error: command 'powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1```

  But the greenlet community is saying this is a gcc bug and it would not be safe to revert the greenlet change that exposed this issue. I have no idea whether that is true or not. Supposedly this should be fixed by https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=9213244550335bcb2b8590a0d7d58ac74c932361 but that fix is not present in the latest version of gcc (5.4.0) available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
   
  ---uname output---
  unavailable due to lab outage
   
  Machine Type = unavailable due to lab outage 
   
  ---Debugger---
  A debugger is not configured
   
  ---Steps to Reproduce---
  This should be reproducible with `git clone git://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet; cd greenlet; python setup.py bdist_wheel`, though it was originally found using pypi rather than github and with a more complicated (scripted) command as detailed in the greenlet bug description.
   
  Contact Information = Matthew Edmonds / edmondsw at us.ibm.com 
   
  Userspace tool common name: greenlet 
   
  The userspace tool has the following bit modes: no idea 

  Userspace rpm: N/A

  Userspace tool obtained from project website:  0.4.14 
   
  *Additional Instructions for Matthew Edmonds / edmondsw at us.ibm.com:
  -Attach ltrace and strace of userspace application.

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