Created attachment 886897 [details]
ppc64le patch for openjdk-1.8

To build java-1.8.0-openjdk on ppc64le, we need some trivial changes to the spec file and a small patch to define the arch.  I'll attach the patch and display the spec diffs here.  Note the ppc64le and ppc64be defines are from the 1.7 spec file.

diff --git a/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec b/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
index e2ded41..1844f19 100644
--- a/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
+++ b/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 %global aarch64         aarch64 arm64 armv8
 %global multilib_arches %{power64} sparc64 x86_64 %{aarch64}
 %global jit_arches      %{ix86} x86_64 sparcv9 sparc64 %{aarch64}
+#sometimes we need to distinguish big and little endian PPC64
+%global ppc64le                 ppc64le
+%global ppc64be                 ppc64 ppc64p7
 
 
 %ifarch x86_64
@@ -16,9 +19,12 @@
 %ifarch ppc
 %global archinstall ppc
 %endif
-%ifarch %{power64}
+%ifarch %{ppc64be}
 %global archinstall ppc64
 %endif
+%ifarch %{ppc64le}
+%global archinstall ppc64le
+%endif
 %ifarch %{ix86}
 %global archinstall i386
 %endif
@@ -216,6 +222,7 @@ Patch103: %{name}-ppc-zero-hotspot.patch
 Patch201: system-libjpeg.patch
 Patch202: system-libpng.patch
 Patch203: system-lcms.patch
+Patch999: ppc64le.patch
 
 BuildRequires: autoconf
 BuildRequires: automake
@@ -251,7 +258,7 @@ BuildRequires: libffi-devel
 BuildRequires: openssl
 # execstack build requirement.
 # no prelink on ARM yet
-%ifnarch %{arm} %{aarch64}
+%ifnarch %{arm} %{aarch64} ppc64le
 BuildRequires: prelink
 %endif
 %if %{with_systemtap}
@@ -435,9 +442,10 @@ sh %{SOURCE12}
 %patch102
 %endif
 
-%ifarch ppc %{power64}
+%ifarch ppc %{power64} 
 # PPC fixes
 %patch103
+%patch999 -p1
 %endif
 
 # Extract systemtap tapsets