Comment 1 for bug 1270862

Here is the trace when building PCRE 8.31 from Ubuntu sources:

sudo dpkg-buildpackage

...

CC_FOR_BUILD=cc CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CFLAGS="-Wall -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro" \
     ./configure \
  --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu \
  --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man \
  --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info \
  --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu \
  --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties \
  --disable-silent-rules

No JIT, and no 16bit library.

pcre-8.31 configuration summary:

    Install prefix .................. : /usr
    C preprocessor .................. : powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -E
    C compiler ...................... : powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc
    C++ preprocessor ................ : powerpc64le-linux-gnu-g++ -E
    C++ compiler .................... : powerpc64le-linux-gnu-g++
    Linker .......................... : /usr/bin/ld
    C preprocessor flags ............ : -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
    C compiler flags ................ : -Wall -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
    C++ compiler flags .............. : -O2
    Linker flags .................... : -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
    Extra libraries ................. :

    Build 8 bit pcre library ........ : yes
    Build 16 bit pcre library ....... : no
    Build C++ library ............... : yes
    Enable JIT compiling support .... : no
    Enable UTF-8/16 support ......... : yes
    Unicode properties .............. : yes
    Newline char/sequence ........... : lf
    \R matches only ANYCRLF ......... : no
    EBCDIC coding ................... : no
    Rebuild char tables ............. : no
    Use stack recursion ............. : yes
    POSIX mem threshold ............. : 10
    Internal link size .............. : 2
    Match limit ..................... : 10000000
    Match limit recursion ........... : MATCH_LIMIT
    Build shared libs ............... : yes
    Build static libs ............... : yes
    Use JIT in pcregrep ............. : no
    Buffer size for pcregrep ........ : 20480
    Link pcregrep with libz ......... : no
    Link pcregrep with libbz2 ....... : no
    Link pcretest with libedit ...... : no
    Link pcretest with libreadline .. : no

PASS: pcrecpp_unittest
PASS: pcre_scanner_unittest
PASS: pcre_stringpiece_unittest
PASS: RunTest
PASS: RunGrepTest

In order to check that all main PCRE features run fine on Ubuntu/PPC/LE, at least the following options should be added to the ./configure line:
--enable-shared=no --enable-pcre16 --enable-pcre32 --enable-unicode-properties --enable-jit

Using --enable-jit with this 8.31 version will not work; too old for PPC. Use fresher version, like 8.34 . However, work is still being done for making JIT test OK on PCRE 8.34 on Ubuntu/PPC/LE (ABI issue).