[Rd] [PATCH] ./configure fails to recognize alphapca56 (PR#572)

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> plummer  writes:

> I am filing this as a bug report so it doesn't get lost.

Thanks.

> -----FW: <XFMail.000616094624.plummer@iarc.fr>-----

> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:46:24 +0200 (CEST)
> Sender: owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> From: Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr>
> To: Naoki Takebayashi <ntakebay@bio.indiana.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Rd] [PATCH] ./configure fails to recognize alphapca56 (R-1.
> Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch

> On 15-Jun-00 Naoki Takebayashi wrote:
>> I think I reported this bug in the past.  At that time, I was told that
>> it is a bug of autoconf.
>> 
>> ./configure does not recognize Linux on DEC Alpha 21164PC (a cheap version
>> of Alpha EV56), so all the compilation flags were set incorrectly.  I
>> don't know the right way to fix it (I don't know how autoconf works
>> yet ...), but the following patch fixes the problem.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Naoki
>> 
>> Naoki Takebayashi     <ntakebay@bio.indiana.edu>
>> --- Dept. of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall 142
>> --- 1001 E. Third St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 USA
>> 
>> 
>> --- R-1.1.0/tools/config.sub.orig     Thu Jun 15 13:49:01 2000
>> +++ R-1.1.0/tools/config.sub  Thu Jun 15 14:00:25 2000
>> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
>> | arme[lb] | pyramid | mn10200 | mn10300 | tron | a29k \
>> | 580 | i960 | h8300 | hppa | hppa1.0 | hppa1.1 | hppa2.0 \
>> | alpha | alphaev5 | alphaev56 | we32k | ns16k | clipper \
>> +             | alphapca56 \
>> | i370 | sh | powerpc | powerpcle | 1750a | dsp16xx | pdp11 \
>> | mips64 | mipsel | mips64el | mips64orion | mips64orionel \
>> | mipstx39 | mipstx39el \
>> @@ -177,6 +178,7 @@
>> | power-* | none-* | 580-* | cray2-* | h8300-* | i960-* \
>> | xmp-* | ymp-* | hppa-* | hppa1.0-* | hppa1.1-* | hppa2.0-* \
>> | alpha-* | alphaev5-* | alphaev56-* | we32k-* | cydra-* \
>> +           | alphapca56-* \
>> | ns16k-* | pn-* | np1-* | xps100-* | clipper-* | orion-* \
>> | sparclite-* | pdp11-* | sh-* | powerpc-* | powerpcle-* \
>> | sparc64-* | mips64-* | mipsel-* \

> The config.sub file is part of the GNU automake package and is meant
> to be used as is.  The version on my system (automake-1.4) does have
> an entry for alphapca5[67], so I guess the config.sub that comes with
> R just needs to be replaced with an up-to-date version.

Interesting.  You're on a Debian system like myself?  The automake 1.4
sources do not have that, but the versions in /usr/share/... do, same
for libtool.

Anyway, I just realized that autoconf is available by anonCVS, and that
the most current versions of the config.guess and config.sub scripts are
always in the CVS tree.  Will update the versions in the sources.

[Peter: this is something else we should most likely always do before a
new release, similar to changing the version numbers in the FAQ etc.  Do
we have a list of these front-matter things?]

-k

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