Hello.
I received this report from the Debian bug system.
The report included two patches to choose from. One of them is a patch
to the Debian packaging so that it uses autoreconf.
The other one, which is the one I was planning to apply to Debian
gettext 0.18.3.2, updates m4/libtool.m4 and related files.
To my surprise, I've just checked and this second patch still applies
to the newly released 0.19.2, which means this has not been fixed
upstream yet.
So: Would be possible to release a gettext version using latest
libtool so that I do not need to add any special hack in the Debian
package? (Or maybe this is not even fixed in libtool yet?)
Attached the patch relative to gettext 0.19.2.
Thanks.
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From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:06:47 -0300
Subject: Bug#754146: gettext: fix FTBFS on ppc64el with autoreconf or libtool
patch (provided)
Package: src:gettext
Version: 0.18.3.2-3
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64el
User: [email protected]
Usertags: autoreconf
Hi Santiago,
Either of the attached patches fix a FTBFS on ppc64el due to shared
libraries not being built (due to old libtool.m4/configure script).
Would you please consider one of them for an upload?
One is a simple patch (fixes only ppc64el). The other is a more complete
dh-autoreconf thing (fixes ppc64el and other new arches, but uses dh_,
which AFAICT the package is not using, but does build successfully).
With either of them applied, the contents of the built packages (i.e.,
dpkg-deb -c) are equivalent to those of powerpc packages (i.e., no diff
in file listings, accounting for GNU arch name difference).
Thank you,
--
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center
Description: Add support for little-endian powerpc Linux
Derived from a libtool patch by Alan Modra.
Author: Alan Modra <[email protected]>
Author: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2013-12-15
--- a/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@
rm -rf conftest*
;;
-x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
+x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*|sparc*-*linux*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
@@ -1326,7 +1326,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_i386"
;;
- ppc64-*linux*|powerpc64-*linux*)
+ powerpc64le-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32lppclinux"
+ ;;
+ powerpc64-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32ppclinux"
;;
s390x-*linux*)
@@ -1345,7 +1348,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_x86_64"
;;
- ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*)
+ powerpcle-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64lppc"
+ ;;
+ powerpc-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64ppc"
;;
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*)
--- a/gettext-runtime/configure
+++ b/gettext-runtime/configure
@@ -9335,7 +9335,7 @@
rm -rf conftest*
;;
-x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
+x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*|sparc*-*linux*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
@@ -9353,7 +9353,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_i386"
;;
- ppc64-*linux*|powerpc64-*linux*)
+ powerpc64le-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32lppclinux"
+ ;;
+ powerpc64-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32ppclinux"
;;
s390x-*linux*)
@@ -9372,7 +9375,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_x86_64"
;;
- ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*)
+ powerpcle-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64lppc"
+ ;;
+ powerpc-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64ppc"
;;
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*)
--- a/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/configure
+++ b/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/configure
@@ -7424,7 +7424,7 @@
rm -rf conftest*
;;
-x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
+x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*|sparc*-*linux*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
@@ -7442,7 +7442,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_i386"
;;
- ppc64-*linux*|powerpc64-*linux*)
+ powerpc64le-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32lppclinux"
+ ;;
+ powerpc64-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32ppclinux"
;;
s390x-*linux*)
@@ -7461,7 +7464,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_x86_64"
;;
- ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*)
+ powerpcle-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64lppc"
+ ;;
+ powerpc-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64ppc"
;;
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*)
--- a/gettext-tools/configure
+++ b/gettext-tools/configure
@@ -11347,7 +11347,7 @@
rm -rf conftest*
;;
-x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
+x86_64-*kfreebsd*-gnu|x86_64-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*| \
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*|sparc*-*linux*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
@@ -11365,7 +11365,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_i386"
;;
- ppc64-*linux*|powerpc64-*linux*)
+ powerpc64le-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32lppclinux"
+ ;;
+ powerpc64-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf32ppclinux"
;;
s390x-*linux*)
@@ -11384,7 +11387,10 @@
x86_64-*linux*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_x86_64"
;;
- ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*)
+ powerpcle-*)
+ LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64lppc"
+ ;;
+ powerpc-*)
LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64ppc"
;;
s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*)
