configure fails on HP-UX/Itanium (cannot assemble alignment test)

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.org> writes:

  I wanted to compile GMP 4.1.4 on td176.testdrive.hp.com
  (ia64-hp-hpux11.23), but got the following error:
  
  td176> ./configure --prefix=$HOME --exec-prefix=$HOME/ia64-hp-hpux11.23 --enable-assert gmp_cv_asm_underscore=no
  [...]
  checking if .align assembly directive is logarithmic... configure: error: cannot assemble alignment test
  
Please see the [2004-09-23] item under http://swox.com/gmp/#STATUS.

In short, ia64-hp-hpux is an unsupported platform.  But there
is a workaround to make it work.

-- 
Torbjörn