ppc64le support

[madscientist159]

Stock libv8 has native support for ppc64le, but the default Gem install process tries to pull in a bunch of x86_64 tooling binaries from Google.

There should be a ppc64le build of the libv8 gem for Linux, given ppc64le is the only open ISA system with enough horsepower to run Ruby.

[runlevel5]

@madscientist159 the depot_tools by Chromium Dev team does not offer ppc64le binaries. In theory it is possible to substitute these tools with custom-built but there is no guarantee that it would perform exactly like it was meant to.

[runlevel5]

@madscientist159 I manage to build a new libv8 gem https://github.com/runlevel5/v8-ppc64le/blob/master/libv8-7.3.495-powerpc64le-linux.gem if you need it. Or you could build the gem yourself, please see instructions on https://github.com/runlevel5/v8-ppc64le

FYI, discourse now runs perfectly

[lloeki]

I'm interested in people trying out libv8-node. No binaries yet but the ruby platform gem should build.

[runlevel5]

@lloeki yes I could help. Do you have a list of tests that you want me to go through?

[lloeki]

@runlevel5 let's track this testing over at rubyjs/libv8-node#11

[runlevel5]

@madscientist159 FYI I can confirm the ruby-libv8-node works perfectly. Shall we consider adopting discourse again?

[lloeki]

Closing as libv8-node is a much better place to achieve that, as it is extremely non-trivial to sidestep depot_tools in any other way.