From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:35071 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025Ab3LZH4a (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Dec 2013 02:56:30 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: Madhu Pavan Subject: Re: util-linux-2.24 not compatible with ppc64le architecture Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 02:56:34 -0500 Cc: kzak@redhat.com, util-linux@vger.kernel.org, deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com, athunugu@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <52BBD37B.30609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <52BBD37B.30609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2308263.d7UCrLoPrb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <201312260256.36705.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart2308263.d7UCrLoPrb Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 26 December 2013 01:58:03 Madhu Pavan wrote: > We are in the process of adding support for new arch (ppc64le) and as > part of that we wanted to send patches for config.guess and configure as > appropriate. as i explained to one of your coworkers (specifically, about GNU/patch &=20 libtool & ppc64le), and to others about aarch64 in config.{sub,guess}, you'= re=20 approaching this all wrong. your packaging system should be updating confi= g. {sub,guess} automatically, and you probably should implement something for= =20 autoregenerating libtool stuff for ppc64le support. you're going to hit this in every single package out there. it is=20 unreasonable to go to every maintainer and ask them to regenerate their=20 autotools & re-release using bleeding edge tools (in this case, master bran= ch=20 of libtool). you're going to have to update your build scripts to do this= =20 automatically. this is expected behavior every time you release a new=20 architecture that requires changes in core autotool packages. =2Dmike --nextPart2308263.d7UCrLoPrb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJSu+E0AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBSy4QANntLYMX1Wo83UcYfZzi2vBM r0SOVUp5eREOtpVd7OjphFd3nmRs9uMtIwrlK2LGoSP+bnZ3W2YKyRYTjKdy/O9v KR4b2C/vvgdf2RMMDOU1g/SzRn4ClMMkS3TXKw6RENu9pHlm6flFTwNMUFKTArJG 7fdlxVXFQfXpyBaTR1X+NRL/+AzYrPyF1/s1zVChTlYqkDHo9ipddgVXuDoy+VxY rYIy2Y6IG6X3Sg8bppK64OgJNYhgwPic9bm9RfbtYsxOJ0dAH/tb50ulYaUpZJOH 8HOE9Tgz9CJO5+nZzNz266+mVE4cu/R6/QhacYA+x3nSNjC+H51RkaFpR1j7qZ4K f4FCwVKSPluh86QLWqsg+oTVgEYTZ5sVemEhK9pH3ap2/OQaRcKCq/XpWQglHzCM k0b2xsGsq+OjPKz42u/Ttw8txVt7KlTrENR/kzXpuhHaEUbuE/IHwIkbJv6ffWtF /85BN9rSJX0fqoCUGai9OfqsvoMoNnGXMQNdeW12QusG9YF8ZaULUx7mOxwM2WYj QkOgm37qq/EWzEm4GPfxLckP1+SGxxJ7wRo7kS6z9YzqZlhi4d7Cq31IXbyHAHG8 xvOAZ6eZPxSByN10uUqah4m/kKHqCsvUfyfyI+oxvEnWDgDpbXBuIbev/U5V/41A IouktTNSkI+UlGapkaTm =mgrN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2308263.d7UCrLoPrb--