Re: [Bug-readline] readline-6.2 not compatible with ppc64le architecture

[Chet Ramey]

> IBM is introducing a new architecture - ppc64le (powerpc 64-bit Little 
> Endian) and I was looking at building "readline-6.2" on our ppc64le 
> environment and I found that "readline-6.2" would require a patch to 
> either config.guess or needs to pick up the latest automake (1.13.4 or 
> above) version from upstream. The latest config.guess which has the 
> ppc64le changes can be found at:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD.
>  
> 
> 
> Can you please spin a new version which would support ppc64le? Please do 
> let me know if you will be picking up the patches from upstream or you 
> would require local patches to be provided.

Can you confirm that this patch is sufficient to add ppc64le support to
readline-6.2?

Chet

readline-ppc64le-config.patch
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