Control: tag -1 + help

On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:43:15 +0200, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 14.04.2014 00:32, schrieb Stephen Kitt:
> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:50:39 +0000, Matthias Klose <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> The package fails to build on ppc64el (powerpc64le-linux-gnu), because 
> >> the config.{guess,sub} files are out of date, and are not updated during 
> >> the build.  If possible, please do not update these files directly, but
> >> build-depend on autotools-dev instead, and use the tools provided by
> >> autotools-dev to update these files.
> > 
> > Are you sure that is the cause? I'm using the same autoreconf-ing system
> > as is used in gcc-4.8 (from rules.patch in the gcc source), and
> > powerpc64le is catered for in the resulting files:
> 
> the ppc64el support was only recently merged into the 4.8 branch, so maybe
> it's worth retrying. I'll check later

OK, thanks. Although from the build log the version used was
4.8.2-16ubuntu6x1, which I believe had most of the required support
included...

> > which suggests something other than missing powerpc64le support in the 
> > various autotools files.
> > 
> > Is there any chance I could get access to a powerpc64le machine to 
> > investigate this further?
> 
> I'm sorry, no.

Oh well, it was worth a shot! I'm tagging this bug + help then since I can't
reproduce it or fix it.

Regards,

Stephen

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