bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23" upstream package

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

>> We would like to request you to upgrade "automake" in your build
>> machine to >=1.13.4 and spin-off a new version of "emacs23" and let us
>> know the new tar availability. So that we can test it on ppc64le
>> architecture for you.
>>
>> the release tarball that we picked is from
>> "http://mirrors.ispros.com.bd/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.3.tar.gz" , which
>> doesn't have the ppc64le support.
>
> I'm not sure if you are talking about Emacs 23, or Emacs 24.3.
> We stopped supporting Emacs 23 some years ago, so there will be no new
> release of that.
>
> It is possible that the upcoming Emacs 24.4 release could support
> ppc64le, depending on what changes turn out to be needed.
>
> If it is just a matter of using a newer config.guess, then you do not
> need us to do anything. Simply run
>
> ./autogen.sh
>
> in the 24.3 source directory to regenerate the autotools files using
> whatever version of automake you wish.
>
> Quite possibly other changes will be needed as well though (eg to
> configure.ac).

More information was requested two years ago, but no further progress
has been made, so I'm closing this bug report.  If this problem is still
present, please reopen the bug report.

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