GNU bug report logs - #16466
Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23" upstream package

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ravi <ravi <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23" upstream package
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:46:44 +0530

Hi,

    We are in the process of adding support for new arch 'ppc64le' 
(powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) and I was looking at building " emacs23" 
package on ppc64le environment and found that "emacs23" package require 
a patch to config.guess file found in the emacs23 release tarball.
Fortunately , automake >=1.13.4 has all the needed bits to support 
building on ppc64le arch.

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.

Your response is highly appreciated.

-- 
Ravindran
IBM LinuxTechnologyCenter

Message #8 received at 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: ravi <ravi <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepakcs <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com, 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:10:55 -0500

ravi wrote:

>     We are in the process of adding support for new arch 'ppc64le'
> (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) and I was looking at building "
> emacs23" package on ppc64le environment and found that "emacs23"
> package require a patch to config.guess file found in the emacs23
> release tarball.
> Fortunately , automake >=1.13.4 has all the needed bits to support
> building on ppc64le arch.
>
> 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).

Message #13 received at 16466-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: deepakcs <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com, 16466-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 ravi <ravi <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:05:22 -0800

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> 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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Message #16 received at 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:09:23 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> More information was requested two years ago

?
Two _weeks_ ago.

Message #19 received at 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:14:12 -0800

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> More information was requested two years ago
>
> ?
> Two _weeks_ ago.

Oops; misread.  I'm reopening.

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Message #28 received at 16466-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16466-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:46:19 -0400

Closed due to lack of response to request for more information.

Message #31 received at 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: 16466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, ravi <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: bug#16466: Add support for new arch 'ppc64le' in "emacs23"
 upstream package
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 10:29:30 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Closed due to lack of response to request for more information.

According to
http://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC/emacs
nothing needs to be done anyway.

Andreas.

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