Description of problem: The update to protobuf-2.5.0 broke building on ppc and ppc64: libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-sign-compare -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -c google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream_impl_lite.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/zero_copy_stream_impl_lite.o In file included from ./google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops.h:59:0, from ./google/protobuf/stubs/once.h:81, from google/protobuf/stubs/once.cc:38: ./google/protobuf/stubs/platform_macros.h:61:2: error: #error Host architecture was not detected as supported by protobuf #error Host architecture was not detected as supported by protobuf ^ protobuf-2.4.1 built and worked just fine on PowerPC, so please add the missing definition back into protobuf. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): protobuf-2.5.0-1.fc19 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. ppc-koji build --scratch f19 protobuf-2.5.0-1.fc19.src.rpm 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I have no idea how much work fixing protobuf to work on PPC (or other BE archs, presumably) will be. If you want to investigate this and either file an enhancement / patch upstream, or just patch it in Fedora, that's fine, but it's likely I won't have time to do it (and I have no interest non-x86 at the moment).
Upstream code.google.com issue: https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=488
Feel free to reopen if you can get it upstream to take it.