Re: Require support for LIBGC package on PowerPC64 Little Endian system

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the response.
Can you let me know when is the next release scheduled for libgc?

Regards,
Anurag

On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:20 +0400, Ivan Maidanski wrote: 
> Hi Anurag,
> 
> If it doesn't break existing systems support, I'll use it next release (7.4.2).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards, 
> Ivan
> 
> 
> Wed,  4 December 2013, 20:20 +05:30 from Anurag Gupta <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > Hi Ivan,
> > 
> > I got your contact information from Hans, as he mentioned that you are
> > responsible for maintaining package LIBGC. If it's not the case, then
> > please guide me to the appropriate person.
> > 
> > We are in the process of adding support for Little Endian architecture
> > for IBM Power PC (ppc64le). For this we want to have "LIBGC" package
> > containing support for this architecture.
> > 
> > After looking into the release tarball, I couldn't find ppc64le related
> > changes in configure/libtool.m4 files.
> > 
> > For this, can you use latest libtool and then autoconf your build
> > tree to create configure script(and other files) with ppc64le support.
> > But in this case, since latest official libtool release doesn't contain
> > changes for ppc64le and official release is expected by end of year, we
> > have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha release that has all
> > the needed bits to support building on ppc64le.
> > 
> > Until then, can we request you to spin off a new version of your pkg
> > using the alpha libtool release (links below) for distros to pick up
> > 
> > You can pick up the alpha 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)
> > 
> > Appreciate you quick response on this.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Anurag