Re: [Bug-gsl] gsl: Support for new ppc64le arch.

[Chandan]

Thanks for your response.
Will contact you once the stable release of libtool is available.

Thanks,
Chandan

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 08:39 -0800, Patrick Alken wrote:
> The git repository should be using the latest stable release of libtool
> - if there is a new release soon we will upgrade to it
> 
> On 12/08/2013 10:10 PM, Chandan wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC Little Endian)
> > architecture as part of which we are looking at all the packages that
> > need update.
> > I was looking at the package "gsl"(from
> > repository :git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gsl.git and gsl-1.9 as well) and
> > was failed to build "gsl" package on ppc64le machine because of outdated
> > libtool.
> > 
> > We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha source release that
> > has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le. A stable release
> > is expected by end of year.
> > 
> > You can pick up the libtool alpha source release from either of the
> > below :
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz   (1.6MB)
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz   (920KB)
> > 
> > Would it be possible for you to spin up a newer version of "gsl" which
> > would support ppc64le? by using alpha libtool release?
> > 
> > I can help to validate the new release of the "gsl" works
> > well by compiling on ppc64le machine.
> > 
> > Appreciate your response.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chandan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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