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

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:41:55 GMT, Volkan Yazici <vyazici at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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.

> 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.

FYI, and completely irrelevant for this PR, but AIX is still ppcbe. The only big endian platform left.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26821#discussion_r2285532131