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

[Anurag Gupta]

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.

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.

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

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)

Appreciate your quick response.

Thanks!
-- 
Regards,
Anurag