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

[Aharon Robbins]

Hello.

> Subject: Require support for GAWK package on PowerPC64 Little Endian system
           ^^^^^^^

You are *requesting* support.  I'm a volunteer.

> From: Anurag Gupta <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, deepakcs <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:04:41 +0530
>
> Hi Arnold,
>
> I suppose you are maintaining package GAWK and looking into making new
> releases for this package, as mentioned in AUTHORS file. If you are not
> maintaining now, please redirect me to concerned person.

Yes, I'm still the maintainer.

> We are in the process of adding support for Little Endian architecture
> for IBM Power PC (ppc64le). For this we want to have GAWK package
> containing support for this architecture.
>
> In the release tarball and GIT source, I couldn't find ppc64le changes
> in any of the autotools file(config.guess, configure, libtool.m4). We
> could have updated those files by ourselves, but we want distros to pick
> it up directly from upstream, so requesting you to update those files
> upstream.

Submitting patches would not have hurt.

I am using Autoconf 2.69 and Automake 1.13.1.  Do either of those need
updating? From the rest of the mail it doesn't sound like it but I'd
like to be sure.

> For this you can use latest libtool and then autoconf your build tree to
> create all scripts with ppc64le support. But in this case, since latest
> official libtool release doesn't contain changes for ppc64le and
> official release is expected in next few months, we have worked with
> libtool maintainer to get alpha release that has all the needed bits to
> support building on ppc64le. 
>
> Until then, can we request you to spin off a new version of your pkg
> using the alpha libtool release (links below) for distros to pick up

I happen to be working on the next release.  I will most likely include
the use of the alpha libtool in that release. I will not make a separate
immediate release just to support adding ppc64le.

> You can pick up the alpha release from either of the below :
>
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB)
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB)

Thanks for the pointers.

Arnold