[email protected] wrote: > Full_Name: Rajeshkumar S > Version: 2.4.39 > OS: Ubuntu 14.04 > URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ > Submission from: (NULL) (122.248.161.59) > > > > I am trying to build the openldap package from the source following the > release tarball from > ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/openldap-2.4.39.tgz. in a > new architecture ppc64le ( IBM PowerPC Little endian ). As the config.guess > and > libtool did not have the required patches to identify this new architecture, I > did autoreconf -f -i in my build system whose latest automake and libtool has > the patches > of ppc64le. > autoreconf fails with automake errors as shown below > > automake: error: no 'Makefile.am' found for any configure output > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
That's to be expected, since there certainly are no Makefile.am files in our source tree. We don't use automake. This is not a bug. > As discussed in the mailing list, Quanah Gibson-Mount suggested me to request > an > update for auto-tools to support new architectures. > > The automake with version >= 1.13.4 has the correct config.guess with the > required ppc64le fixes. > Regarding the libtool, the last release is more than 2 years ago I believe, we > managed to get an alpha source release which has all the latest patches to > support the new architecture ppc64le > > An alpha version of libtool with ppc64le support is available at > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz. Libtool is so perpetually problematic that we will certainly not integrate an alpha version into our source tree. > Hence I request for an update of the auto tools in your build system to > support > these new architectures. > > Thanks and Regards > Rajeshkumar S > Linux Technology Center, IBM > > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
