From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23" upstream package Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:05:22 -0800 Message-ID: <87vbwxcb7h.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <52D7E9CC.60704@linux.vnet.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391386032 25025 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2014 00:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 00:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com, 16466-done@debbugs.gnu.org, ravi To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 03 01:07:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WA74J-0004BY-Qc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:07:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA74J-0001FY-BJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA74B-00018o-7w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA744-0005UB-KF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:32824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA744-0005U7-Gk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WA744-00025n-29 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:04 -0500 Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:07:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 16466 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Mail-Followup-To: 16466@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, ravi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Original-Received: via spool by 16466-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D16466.13913859977985 (code D ref 16466); Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:07:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16466-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Feb 2014 00:06:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46839 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WA73c-00024i-ME for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:06:36 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:55971) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WA73Z-00024W-KW for 16466-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:06:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WA73L-0007pI-2s; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:06:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:10:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WA73L-0007pI-2s MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1391990779.55405@sN+mnQM23s2YywnQqv8HsA X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:84476 Archived-At: Glenn Morris 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. 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