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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-10-06 14:43:26 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> 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.

I read it.

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

Could you be more specific concerning the workaround?

http://swox.com/gmp/#STATUS mentions the problem concerning the
underscore test, but the one concerning not the alignment test.

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