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Hi Mikael,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/15/2014 02:01 PM, Mikael
Pettersson wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">ravi writes:
> Hi,
>
> We are in the process of adding support for new arch 'ppc64le'
> (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) and I was looking at building " erlang"
> package on ppc64le environment and found that "erlang" package require a
> patch to multiple config.guess files found in the erlang 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 "erlang" and let us know the
> new tar availability. So that we can test it on ppc64le architecture for
> you.
How exactly does it fail currently without updated config.guess files?
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without updated config.guess files, configure script exits with
below error:<br>
<i>configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one</i><br>
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Does it work if you pass --build=ppc64le-unknown-linux-gnu to configure?</pre>
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yes, ./configure --build=ppc64le-unknown-linux-gnu worked fine.<br>
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/Mikael
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ravindran
IBM LinuxTechnologyCenter</pre>
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