powerpc and powerpc64 builds broken

[Justin Hibbits]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
> Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > Yeah, crossbuilds work fine. It's the actual run-on-real-hardware bit
>> > that doesn't.
>> >
>> > (powerpc64 runs fine in qemu-devel; people should try it!)
>>
>> r284345 (introduction of metamode) is the problem.  I bisected it on
>> the power8 and it reliably fails this way.  Andreas tested it on his
>> G4 (32-bit hardware) and it worked fine, so there's something
>> introduced that just doesn't like powerpc64.
>
> Hmm, didn't touch usr.bin/mkesdb so must be something indirect.
> Is this with[out] NO_CLEAN ?

Tried it both ways, with the same result.  I don't think metamode
necessarily is the cause of the problem, merely unmasking the latent
problem.  Though I've committed a fix for this, it would still be nice
to understand what in r284345 exposed this.

- Justin