> IBM is introducing a new architecture - ppc64le (powerpc 64-bit Little
> Endian) and I was looking at building "readline-6.2" on our ppc64le
> environment and I found that "readline-6.2" would require a patch to
> either config.guess or needs to pick up the latest automake (1.13.4 or
> above) version from upstream. The latest config.guess which has the
> ppc64le changes can be found at:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD.
>
>
>
> Can you please spin a new version which would support ppc64le? Please do
> let me know if you will be picking up the patches from upstream or you
> would require local patches to be provided.
Can you confirm that this patch is sufficient to add ppc64le support to
readline-6.2?
Chet
*** /usr/src/local/chet/src/bash/readline-6.2-patched/support/config.guess
2009-01-04 14:41:33.000000000 -0500
--- support/config.guess 2014-01-13 08:20:46.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 922,925 ****
--- 922,931 ----
echo powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
exit ;;
+ ppcle:Linux:*:*)
+ echo powerpcle-unknown-linux-gnu
+ exit ;;
+ ppc64le:Linux:*:*)
+ echo powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
+ exit ;;
alpha:Linux:*:*)
case `sed -n '/^cpu model/s/^.*: \(.*\)/\1/p' < /proc/cpuinfo` in
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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