RFR: 8362243: Devkit creation for Fedora base OS is broken [v2]

[Volkan Yazici]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:31:47 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @shipilev, thanks so much for the review. 🙇 I was thinking in the same with @magicus while removing this row. Do you still prefer to keep it?
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> This list is also _not_ about Fedora devkit, and the PR is about Fedora devkit, so we are doing unrelated work here, regardless if it makes sense or not :) So yes, I prefer to keep it.
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>> I think all our ppc64 code assumes le by now, so even if we could get a sysroot for ppc64be to work, I doubt it will do much good for the JDK.
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> I believe Zero is still fine with BE. 
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> Anyhow, we are doing these cross-compilation instructions largely to support the poor souls who are tasked with maintaining the unusual ports. So if Debian PPC64 BE port is alive, which I think it is, that would mean they build OpenJDK, that would mean they build _some_ PPC64BE config, whether Zero (more likely) or Server (unlikely, as it is probably broken).

Introduced it back in 69344b10.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26821#discussion_r2285499552