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Configure script misidentifies OpenBSD/hppa

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Josh Elsasser <josh <at> elsasser.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Configure script misidentifies OpenBSD/hppa
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:52:38 -0800 (PST)

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The emacs configure script identifies hppa-*-openbsd* as the wrong
platform, hp9000s300 instead of hp800. As the name might suggest,
OpenBSD/hppa is for HP machines with PA-RISC processors, and not
Motorola 68k.  A quick glance at the NetBSD section of the configure
script should confirm this.

The following patch allows emacs 22.2 to build for me on my hppa box,
otherwise the configure script bails with the "your platform is
obsolete" message and exit code 33.

--- configure.in.orig	Sat Mar  1 11:28:11 2008
+++ configure.in	Mon Nov 17 18:27:53 2008
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ dnl see the `changequote' comment above.
     case "${canonical}" in
       alpha*-*-openbsd*)	machine=alpha ;;
       arm-*-openbsd*)          machine=arm ;;
-      hppa-*-openbsd*)         machine=hp9000s300 ;;
+      hppa-*-openbsd*)         machine=hp800 ;;
       i386-*-openbsd*)         machine=intel386 ;;
       m68k-*-openbsd*)         machine=hp9000s300 ;;
       m88k-*-openbsd*)         machine=aviion ;;


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In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (hppa-unknown-openbsd4.4, X toolkit)
 of 2008-11-17 on hippo.joshe.fake
configured using `configure  'hppa-unknown-openbsd4.4' '--with-pop' '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info' 'build_alias=hppa-unknown-openbsd4.4' 'host_alias=hppa-unknown-openbsd4.4' 'target_alias=hppa-unknown-openbsd4.4' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include  -I/usr/local/include/libpng''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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Message #10 received at 1365-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 1365-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1365: Configure script misidentifies OpenBSD/hppa
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:52:14 -0500

Thanks; applied.

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