Dear  Team,

While trying to configure musl package on power arch(ppc64le) we are getting the below configure issue

Reflink:-

musl - musl - an implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems (musl-libc.org)

Musl version 1.2.1:-

Download link:- https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/snapshot/musl-1.2.1.tar.gz

Detailed issue.

Architure used:-

uname -a

Linux f1a836851f19 4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.ppc64le #1 SMP Mon Jan 17 06:49:39 EST 2022 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Issue faced:-

./configure

...........

checking preprocessor condition _CALL_ELF == 2... true

checking preprocessor condition __LITTLE_ENDIAN__... true

checking preprocessor condition _SOFT_FLOAT... false

configured for powerpc64 variant: powerpc64le

checking whether compiler's long double definition matches float.h... no

./configure: error: unsupported long double type

Regards,

Ankit Paraskar