Hello, Today, while trying to install the apsw package for python on an IBM POWER system I found I needed a new version of sqlite.
I tried to build sqlite from sqlite-configure-3801001.tar.gz on an IBM POWER system running ubuntu and the build failed due to a lack of knowledge of ppc64le in the embedded config.guess / config.sub scripts. On my target system "uname -a" gives: Linux pip-test 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:50:31 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux The commands I used (as suggested on the sqlite download page of http://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md ) are: mkdir test_area cd test_area mkdir sqlite cd sqlite wget https://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-autoconf-3081001.tar.gz tar xvf *gz mkdir bld cd bld ../sqlite-autoconf-3081001/configure Here I am told that the config.guess command in the source does not know about ppc64le. I then tried the same commands on an x86 system and all went smoothly. Back on the POWER system I downloaded new versions for config.guess and config.sub, overlaid the versions in the sqlite directory, then tried again: cd .. find . -name config.guess find . -name config.sub cd .. wget -O config.guess 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD' wget -O config.sub 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD' chmod +x con* ./config.guess cd sqlite/sqlite-autoconf-3081001/ ls config.* mv config.guess config.guess.orig mv config.sub config.sub.orig cp ../../config.* . ../bld/ ../sqlite-autoconf-3081001/configure make make sqlite3.c make test sudo make install The test target is not present in the Makefile but all the other operations succeeded on my ppc64le target. Before submitting this report I found http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/85660/match=config+guess which may be related. Replacing config.guess and config.sub worked for me. I am happy to validate operation on the POWER system for you once the latest config.guess and config.sub files are in the sqlite source. Thank you, Paul Paul G Crumley STSM & Manager IBM Research