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[PATCH] Fix detection of powerpc64 on Darwin in lib/config.guess.

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From: Torsten Mähne <Torsten.Maehne <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix detection of powerpc64 on Darwin in lib/config.guess.
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:31:52 +0200

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Hello,

Please find attached a fix for config.guess, which fixes the detection of powerpc64 on Darwin (Mac OS X). The patch is against commit dc4eaab in git://git.savannah.gnu.org/automake.git. Explanation:

On Darwin (OS X) `uname -p' returns powerpc even if the CPU and OS are 64-bit-capable. This problem has been already observed and resolved for the x86 platform.

The same fix works on the powerpc platform. I observed the bug in GNU automake 1.13.1.

Best regards,

Torsten Maehne

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Torsten Mähne <Torsten.Maehne <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 14323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14323: [PATCH] Fix detection of powerpc64 on Darwin in
	lib/config.guess.
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:38:48 -0600

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On 04/30/2013 10:31 AM, Torsten Mähne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please find attached a fix for config.guess,

Thanks, but this is the wrong list.  Automake regularly syncs from the
canonical upstream source, and patches should go upstream first.  Per
the comments at the head of config.guess:

# Please send patches with a ChangeLog entry to config-patches <at> gnu.org.

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 14323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Torsten Mähne <Torsten.Maehne <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#14323: [PATCH] Fix detection of powerpc64 on Darwin in
	lib/config.guess.
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 11:42:47 +0200

tags 14323 notabug
close 14323

Hi Eric, Torsten.

On 05/01/2013 03:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/30/2013 10:31 AM, Torsten Mähne wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please find attached a fix for config.guess,
> 
> Thanks, but this is the wrong list.  Automake regularly syncs from the
> canonical upstream source, and patches should go upstream first.  Per
> the comments at the head of config.guess:
> 
> # Please send patches with a ChangeLog entry to config-patches <at> gnu.org.
> 
Thanks Eric for explaining this.

I'm closing this report as "not a bug", meaning that it's not an
automake bug; once 'config.guess' is improved upstream, the improvements
should trickle down into the automake repository in a mostly automatic
way.

Regards,
  Stefano

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