Re: Patch to support IA64 HP-UX

[Robert Boehne]

Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the patch!  I work mostly with the multi-language-branch
> > of Libtool because the main branch doesn't have the features I need.
> > Libtool 1.5 will be based on the multi-language-branch, and it is
> > quite difficult for maintainers to transform a patch for head to the
> > MLB without a platform to test on.  I'd like to see support for
> > your platform in the MLB, and I'd be glad to help you work your
> > patch into the MLB framework and get rid of any test failures.
> >
> > Robert
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Here is a patch for IA64 HP-UX on the MLB branch.  It has changes to
> three files, libtool.m4, ltcf-c.sh and ltconfig.in.  It has three
> failures when I run the test suite, all of them the depdemo-make test.
> I am not sure how tagdemo* passed because I didn't make any changes to
> ltcf-cxx.sh yet.
> 
> Anyway if you could check this into the MLB branch that would be great.

As I understand it, your patch is adding support for IA64 versions
of HP-UX, so if you run the tests under hp11-hppa, then it should
still pass if you haven't changed or removed any code for that platform.
Do you mean to say that the tagdemo tests passed under ia64?

Robert

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