FWTS Building on Power8 PowerKVM 3.1.0 (ppc64le)

[Deborah McLemore]

Hi All,

I am setting up FWTS to run on Power 8 PowerKVM 3.1.0, the configure
command complains about no json available, but its not clear to me what it
looks for and what is lacking on this Power 8 Server.

Any suggestions ?

[root at localhost fwts]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking build system type... powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... none needed
checking whether yytext is a pointer... no
checking for bison... bison -y
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking how to convert powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu file names to
powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu file names to
toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64lppc) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for library containing json_object_from_file... no
configure: error: no available json library



[root at localhost fwts]# rpm -qa | grep json
python-jsonpointer-1.0-2.el7_1.ibm.1.noarch
python-anyjson-0.3.3-3.el7_1.ibm.1.noarch
json-glib-0.16.0-3.el7_1.ibm.1.ppc64le
python-jsonpath-rw-1.2.3-2.el7_1.ibm.1.noarch
python-jsonschema-2.3.0-1.el7_1.ibm.1.noarch
python-simplejson-3.2.0-1.el7_1.ibm.1.ppc64le
json-c-0.11-4.el7_1.ibm.2.ppc64le
rubygem-json-1.7.7-25.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.2.ppc64le
rsyslog-mmjsonparse-7.4.7-7.el7_1.1.ibm.1.ppc64le
python-jsonpatch-1.2-2.el7_1.ibm.1.noarch

[root at localhost fwts]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-4.8.3-9.el7_1.ibm.3.ppc64le
gcc-4.8.3-9.el7_1.ibm.3.ppc64le

[root at localhost fwts]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.18.22-359.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.4000.1.ppc64le
(mockbuild at bldple2) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (IBM 4.8.3-9) (GCC) ) #1
SMP Tue Nov 10 11:07:22 CST 2015


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Deb McLemore
IBM OpenPower - IBM Systems
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debmc at us.ibm.com
ipowermc at icloud.com
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