The issue has been resolved upstream in
https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/commit/56d6c8d9 and they rolled
out 2.18.1 which includes it
- Bug#1129938: google-perftools ftbfs on ppc64el Matthias Klose
- Bug#1129938: google-perftools ftbfs on ppc64el Sebastien Bacher
- Bug#1129938: google-perftools ftbfs on ppc64el GCS

