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

[Anurag Gupta]

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. 

Alpha libtool and automake >= 1.13.14 has ppc64le support. But if you
use alpha libtool version mentioned below, then it will carry both
config.guess and libtool.m4 files with ppc64le fixes. So after upgrading
to alpha libtool, you have to do autoreconf and then these
files(config.guess, configure, libtool.m4) will be updated inside your
package. I saw multiple config.guess and configure script inside GAWK
package, so please make sure the fix goes in both the files.

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.

Can you also let me the tentative time frame, when you are planning to
make a new release for GAWK? That will help us.

Thanks!

Regards,
Anurag



On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 22:24 +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote: 
> 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
>