On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 9:05 PM Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> Do you have any idea how common such old systems might be?
>

I don't have a specific number but I think using that old versions of glibc
is uncommon specially for POWER8 and above processors considering those
versions are more than 8 years old.

Maybe add a configure check for getauxval, and either fail at configure
> time if --enable-fat is specified but we can't support it, or fall back
> to assuming that none of the optional features are present at runtime?
>
> Some preprocessor check of glibc version in fat-ppc.c could work too, if
> that's simpler.
>

That's what I ended up with, I made a new merge request for these changes
and closed the old one.

regards,
Mamone
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