6.0.0a -Fails to build on my powerpc box (debian wheezy)

Torbjorn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Sun Mar 30 15:45:11 UTC 2014


  > I am curious about the contents of /prec/cpuinfo for the problem systems.
  
  sis at debian-sis:~/comp/gmp-6.0.0$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
  processor       : 0
  cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
  clock           : 1800.000000MHz
  revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)
  
  processor       : 1
  cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
  clock           : 1800.000000MHz
  revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)
  
  timebase        : 33333333
  platform        : PowerMac
  model           : PowerMac7,2
  machine         : PowerMac7,2
  motherboard     : PowerMac7,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
  detected as     : 336 (PowerMac G5)
  pmac flags      : 00000000
  L2 cache        : 512K unified
  pmac-generation : NewWorld
  
And for this system GMP's config.guess returns a generic "powerpc64"
instead of the more specific "powerpc970"?  Strange, the code in
config.guess looks like it would cover the above output.


Torbjörn
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