Re: Can't configure netperf 2.5.0 on IBM PowerPC

[Casey Leedom]

  As long as we say "documented" in quotes :-).  Here's the output for "configure --help" for these options:

System types:
  --build=BUILD     configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
  --host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
  --target=TARGET   configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]

There's no specification for the format or content for these options.  By the way, the fundamental problem seems to be the lack of an entry containing "ppc64le" for ${UNAME_MACHINE} in the big case-statement.  netperf.org is still down so I can't check to see if this has been corrected in newer versions of config.guess.

Casey

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From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden> on behalf of Earnie <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:13:33 AM
To: Casey Leedom; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Can't configure netperf 2.5.0 on IBM PowerPC

 

On 6/6/2017 1:41 PM, Casey Leedom wrote:
>   2.5.0 is a pretty old version of netperf.  Unfortunately netperf.org
> was down yesterday and I couldn't get a newer copy.  I eventually used
> "./configure --build=ppc64le-unknown-linux-gnu" which seemed to work.
> Unfortunately this option isn't documented so it took some time to
> figure that out.  It would be nice if thise were documented at the front
> of config.guess.
>

The --build, --host, --target options are configure options which cause
config.guess to not be executed.  They are documented with ./configure
--help.

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Earnie