It seems that this is still a problem, at least it is for us on RHEL4 64-bit. We have partially looked into this and found that it might be able to be fixed with the newer release or maybe by doing some hacking with shtool or whatnot to add in the new architectures to it's detection. I would think that just MFC'ing the newer version into the 2-Stable would be easiest though. Could this be done?
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:33 -0700, Doug Summers wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006, Doug Summers wrote: > >> > >>> I can't build emacs from any version available. It keeps complaining > >>> about the host type not being supported. I noticed that the code is > >>> fairly old - is there a newer version available? > >> Which particular Emacs version on which AMD64-based OS have you tried? > > > > I just tried this on SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 with an Athlon 64, > > building emacs-21.4a-2.5.0.src.rpm. > > > > The problem appears that the configure script at line 1643 recognizes > > amd64*-*-*, and at line 1635 recognizes ia64*-*-* while the host system > > type comes up with x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. > > > > It appears that some hacking is necessary on the configure file > > to get the right combination. > > > > I'm up to my a$$ in alligators now so don't have time to hack on > > this (and I'm a vi bigot not emacs :-). > > > > Bill > > -- > > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > > > > The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning > > does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it > > means now. > > -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > > User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org > > Supposedly the more recent CVS versions of Emacs fix this problem, but I > haven't tested it yet. > > Ralph - I'll give this a try later on tonight and let you know if it > works and what version. > > Doug > ______________________________________________________________________ > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org > -- David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu
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