Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
Amusingly enough, the SuperH (or sh for short) architecture isn't one
of the many I have handy, but someone seems to be porting Fedora to
that arch. They filed a bug against R, which isn't really an R bug,
but is more an inherited bug from autoconf. Specifically, the R
configure script invokes gcc(gfortran) which then passes "-little" to
gas when compiling for backward compatibility. This fails on sh, and
they proposed that it be added to the list of "flags to ignore" in
configure.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464055
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456886
I've attached the same patch that is in 464055 to this email.
Hopefully, at some point before the sun explodes, that fix will end
up in autoconf, and upstreams will pick it up when they run the fixed
autoconf on their tree.
Right. Until then, I think it needs to be fixed downstreams.
We can't fix configure upstreams because it gets rebuilt by autoconf all
the time during our build procedures.
I suppose that we _could_ override /usr/share/auto
conf/autoconf/fortran.m4 with a file of our own, but it
sounds like Bad Luck...
Anyways, as you probably know, we're deep in code freeze for 2.8.0 on
Monday.
-p
Thanks,
~tom
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