Bug 630898 - mongodb does not work on ppc
Summary: mongodb does not work on ppc
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mongodb
Version: 12
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ionuț Arțăriși
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVE...
Whiteboard:
: 637262 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-ExcludeArch-ppc64, F-ExcludeArch-ppc64 F-ExcludeArch-s390x F-ExcludeArch-ppc F-ExcludeArch-SPARC
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-07 10:11 UTC by Ionuț Arțăriși
Modified: 2016-02-16 13:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-03 12:35:03 UTC
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Description Ionuț Arțăriși 2010-09-07 10:11:58 UTC
This is a tracker bug in accordance with the Packaging Guidelines.

According to upstream[1]:

> The MongoDB server (mongod) must run on a little-endian CPU, so if you are using a PPC OS X machine, mongod will not work.

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Comment 1 Ionuț Arțăriși 2010-09-25 15:09:30 UTC
*** Bug 637262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 12:35:03 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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Comment 4 Matt Riedemann 2013-06-21 12:38:37 UTC
I tried building from the source rpm in Fedora EPEL 6 on ppc64 and s390x and they both fail:

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/epel/6/x86_64/pymongo-2.1.1-1.el6.x86_64.html

Here is one error from s390x:

+ CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -march=z9-109 -mtune=z10'
+ /usr/bin/python setup.py build

*****************************************************

The optional C extensions are currently not supported

on big endian platforms and will not be built.

Performance may be degraded.

*****************************************************

It was also failing with this:

chmod: cannot access `/home/esbld/rpmbuild-pymongo/BUILDROOT/pymongo-2.2.1-1.ibm.s390x/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pymongo/_cmessage.so': No such file or directory

and this:

RPM build errors:
    File not found: /home/esbld/rpmbuild-pymongo/BUILDROOT/pymongo-2.2.1-1.ibm.s390x/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pymongo
    File not found by glob: /home/esbld/rpmbuild-pymongo/BUILDROOT/pymongo-2.2.1-1.ibm.s390x/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pymongo-2.2.1-*.egg-info


Note that I had updated the source tar.gz from version 2.1.1 to 2.2.1 from PyPI but it didn't make a difference.

Comment 5 Dan Horák 2013-06-21 12:58:59 UTC
Matt, I think the reason is that the _cmessage.so module is not built per the  message you saw. This directly explain the first error. And the result of the first "error" is that the package is now arch independent and thus uses /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages instead of /usr/lib64/... for the 64-bit arches.

And lets move the discussion to the mailing list (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ppc or https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/s390x), bugzilla is not the best place. Although this bug is about mongodb itself (where the situation hasn't change AFAIK) and not about the python interface for it.

Comment 6 Petr Pisar 2016-02-16 13:51:10 UTC
Upstream plans big-endian support at the end of 2016 year <https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1625>.

E.g. Perl client already contains some preliminary code. I have no idea what network format is used, but provided clients can run on different hosts than localhost, I would be for lifting the ExcludeArch constraint from clients.


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