On Fri, 3 Jan 2014, Chandan wrote:
> 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 soon.
>
> 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
> "pcre" which would support ppc64le? by using alpha libtool
> release?
If a new stable release is expected soon, I should soon have access to
it, because I run Arch Linux, which is fairly "bleeding edge". The
version of libtool that is currently installed on my box is 2.4.2-12.
The next release of PCRE is not expected for a month or two, so perhaps
by then the new libtool will be out.
I'm afraid I do not like the idea of trying to work with an alpha source
release, especially as I do not know much about libtool. However, you
may be able to do something yourself. In the repository
svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk
there is a file called "autogen.sh" which is a shell script that does
the libtool stuff. If you copy this file into the PCRE 8.34 directory
(8.34 is the latest release) and run it, followed by ./configure etc.,
perhaps it will solve your problem.
Philip
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Philip Hazel
