Long time no see/hear but here I am with a test report from Debian jessie ( deb 8.8 ) on PowerPC.
the env was :CFLAGS=-m64 -g -ggdb -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -mcpu=970 -maltivec -mfull-toc -mregnames
COLUMNS=132CXXFLAGS=-m64 -g -ggdb -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -mcpu=970 -maltivec -mfull-toc -mregnames
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi HISTORY=128 HISTSIZE=128 HOME=/home/dclarke LANG=C LC_ALL=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LINES=43 LOGNAME=dclarke MAIL=/var/mail/dclarke MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/opt/schily/share/man OLDPWD=/usr/local/build PAGER=more PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/schily/bin POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 PWD=/usr/local/build/autoconf-2.69_3.16.0-4-powerpc64.002 SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=1 SSH_CLIENT=172.16.35.9 33092 22 SSH_CONNECTION=172.16.35.9 33092 172.16.35.25 22 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 TERM=vt100 TZ=Canada/Eastern VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi XTERM_LOCALE=C _=/usr/bin/env root@charon:/usr/local/build# uname -aLinux charon 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) ppc64 GNU/Linux
root@charon:/usr/local/build# gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See attached testsuite log also. Cheers. Dennis
autoconf-2.69_3.16.0-4-powerpc64.002_testsuite.log.gz
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