Re: [Gc] Re: Require support for LIBGC packag e on PowerPC64 Little Endian system
Ivan Maidanski <ivmai-JGs/[email protected]>
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Hi Anurag, We don't have a strict release schedule but I think we'll prepare 7.4.2 release in mid-February. Regards, Ivan Thursday, 5 December 2013, 18:55 +05:30 from Anurag Gupta <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Gc mailing list > Gc-V9/[email protected] > http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/