Subject: bug#17598: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 - AIX - SIGSEV when customize

From: Dmitry Antipov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:37 +0400

On 05/28/2014 08:43 PM, Gilles PION wrote:

> I'm running on AIX 6.1, "configure" fails on 7.1 for me:
>
> checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0
> checking host system type... powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0
> configure: error: Emacs does not support `powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0' systems.
> If you think it should, please send a report to [email-masked].
> Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.

Hopefully this may be fixed with just:

--- emacs-24.3.91/configure.ac    2014-05-28 12:28:29.000000000 -0500
+++ emacs-24.3.91/configure.ac  2014-05-28 12:28:58.000000000 -0500
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@
     rs6000-ibm-aix[56]* )
       opsys=aix4-2
     ;;
-   powerpc-ibm-aix[56]*  )
+   powerpc-ibm-aix[5-9]* | powerpc-ibm-aix[1-9][0-9]* )
       opsys=aix4-2
     ;;

Shouldn't we backport this from trunk?

Dmitry