Hello,
Today, while trying to install the apsw package for python on an IBM POWER
system I found I needed a new version of sqlite.
I tried to build sqlite from sqlite-configure-3801001.tar.gz on an IBM
POWER system running ubuntu and the build failed due to a lack of
knowledge of ppc64le in the embedded config.guess / config.sub scripts.
On my target system "uname -a" gives:
Linux pip-test 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15
03:50:31 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
The commands I used (as suggested on the sqlite download page of
http://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md ) are:
mkdir test_area
cd test_area
mkdir sqlite
cd sqlite
wget https://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-autoconf-3081001.tar.gz
tar xvf *gz
mkdir bld
cd bld
../sqlite-autoconf-3081001/configure
Here I am told that the config.guess command in the source does not know
about ppc64le.
I then tried the same commands on an x86 system and all went smoothly.
Back on the POWER system I downloaded new versions for config.guess and
config.sub, overlaid the versions in the sqlite directory, then tried
again:
cd ..
find . -name config.guess
find . -name config.sub
cd ..
wget -O config.guess
'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD'
wget -O config.sub
'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD'
chmod +x con*
./config.guess
cd sqlite/sqlite-autoconf-3081001/
ls config.*
mv config.guess config.guess.orig
mv config.sub config.sub.orig
cp ../../config.* .
../bld/
../sqlite-autoconf-3081001/configure
make
make sqlite3.c
make test
sudo make install
The test target is not present in the Makefile but all the other
operations succeeded on my ppc64le target.
Before submitting this report I found
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/85660/match=config+guess
which may be related. Replacing config.guess and config.sub worked for
me.
I am happy to validate operation on the POWER system for you once the
latest config.guess and config.sub files are in the sqlite source.
Thank you,
Paul
Paul G Crumley
STSM & Manager
IBM Research
