[erlang-bugs] Building on IBM POWER8 running in little endian

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Alexander Pozdneev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to configure Erlang 17.4 on IBM POWER8 running RHEL 7.1 little
> endian, I get the following message
>
> This script, last modified 2013-02-12, has failed to recognize
> the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
> download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
>
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
> and
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD
> ...
>
> I confirm that with the latest versions of config.guess and config.sub I
> was able to build the code successfully.

Related: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/640

Can and, if so, should './otp_build autoconf' take care of this as well?