Re: [bug-gawk] Require support for GAWK package on PowerPC64 Little Endian system

[Aharon Robbins]

Hello.

> Subject: Re: Require support for GAWK package on PowerPC64 Little Endian
>  system
> From: Anurag Gupta <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:03:06 +0530
>
> Hi Arnold,
>
> Thanks for your prompt response.
>
> Sorry for misunderstanding, but I am not actually asking you for formal
> support; just want you to spin a new release for GAWK package. 

Actually, you are.  But let's not worry about it anymore.

> Alpha libtool and automake >= 1.13.14 has ppc64le support.

I have upgraded to automake 1.13.4 and to the alpha libtool. The
changes have been checked into the git repository for gawk on
Savannah.

> I can send you patches too, but patches will be overridden anyways, when
> you do autoreconf. Do let me know, if you still require patches, and I
> can provide you that.

I don't think I do, now, but sending patches would have let me see what
you expect to happen.

You should clone the git repo and then checkout the gawk-4.1-stable
branch to see if what's there now meets your needs.  When working
from git you should do

        ./bootstrap.sh && configure && make

If there are problems please let me know and we can iterate to closure.

> Can you also let me the tentative time frame, when you are planning to
> make a new release for GAWK? That will help us.

I hope sometime in Q1 2014.  I would like to do it sooner rather than
later but I'm working on integrating patches of different kinds and
fixes for different systems and it will need some multi-platform testing.
Making releases is never a trivial operation.

HTH,

Arnold