From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <52AAB034.6070305@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:29:00 +0530 From: snehal MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucas De Marchi CC: linux-modules , Deepak C Shetty Subject: Re: Question regarding kmod pkg References: <52A8273D.6060700@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed List-ID: Thank you for your reply. We are following up with libtool maintainer for releasing the new version. Would keep your updated about the same. PS: Current aplha release looks to have no issues, many upstream maintainers have already used and released the tar, which supports ppc64le. Thanks & regards, Snehal On 12/12/2013 07:42 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > Hi Snehal, > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:50 AM, snehal wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am working on a new architecture - ppc64le (powerpc 64-bit Little >> Endian) and I was working on kmod pkg on our ppc64le environment. >> >> The upstream tarball has the config.guess,config.sub, configure and >> libtool files >> >> I find that kmod already has updated config.guess, which supports ppc64le. >> Following is the latest file, I suppose this is already in tar. >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD. >> >> >> We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha source release >> that has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le.We request you >> to spin >> off a new version of your package using the alpha libtool release. You >> can pick up the libtool alpha source release from either of the below : >> >> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB) >> >> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB) >> >> >> Could you please build and install the libtool alpha version and be able >> to spin new versions of kmod which would support ppc64le? >> >> Please let me know once you spin of the new pkg >> >> Your response is highly appreciated > This is something that could be easily done by distributions > supporting this new architecture. Once libtool releases a new version > this patch can naturally be removed from kmod and other packages. > > We already ship with a very recent version in the tarball and suffer > because of this (see 9de9e07da6ce6fc110b4359ff058b13b5e92dcf4). My > past experience with libtool developers fixing bugs or at least > answering the bugs reported is pretty bad, so I won't update to an > alpha version anytime soon. > > regards, > Lucas De Marchi >