Re: [bug-gawk] Require support for GAWK package on PowerPC64 Little Endian system

[Anurag Gupta]

Hi Arnold,

I have verified all the changes in the GAWK GIT branch that you mentioned and
all changes, except in one file are as expected for ppc64le.

In config.guess present at gawk/extension/build_aux/config.guess,
ppc64le changes are still not present. While in config.guess present at
gawk/config.guess, the changes are correct and as expected. Can you also
make changes in config.guess present at
gawk/extension/build_aux/config.guess? 

Thanks!

Regards,
Anurag


On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 21:53 +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> > Subject: Re: Require support for GAWK package on PowerPC64 Little Endian
> >  system
> > From: Anurag Gupta <address@hidden>
> > To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:03:06 +0530
> >
> > Hi Arnold,
> >
> > Thanks for your prompt response.
> >
> > Sorry for misunderstanding, but I am not actually asking you for formal
> > support; just want you to spin a new release for GAWK package. 
> 
> Actually, you are.  But let's not worry about it anymore.
> 
> > Alpha libtool and automake >= 1.13.14 has ppc64le support.
> 
> I have upgraded to automake 1.13.4 and to the alpha libtool. The
> changes have been checked into the git repository for gawk on
> Savannah.
> 
> > I can send you patches too, but patches will be overridden anyways, when
> > you do autoreconf. Do let me know, if you still require patches, and I
> > can provide you that.
> 
> I don't think I do, now, but sending patches would have let me see what
> you expect to happen.
> 
> You should clone the git repo and then checkout the gawk-4.1-stable
> branch to see if what's there now meets your needs.  When working
> from git you should do
> 
>       ./bootstrap.sh && configure && make
> 
> If there are problems please let me know and we can iterate to closure.
> 
> > Can you also let me the tentative time frame, when you are planning to
> > make a new release for GAWK? That will help us.
> 
> I hope sometime in Q1 2014.  I would like to do it sooner rather than
> later but I'm working on integrating patches of different kinds and
> fixes for different systems and it will need some multi-platform testing.
> Making releases is never a trivial operation.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Arnold
>