tags 328031 + pending thanks Hello all
this patch has been sent to me through Debian Bug Tracking system by Jurij Smakov. Link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328031 Here is what he has to say about the patch: "I am forwarding the information from upstream to the bug so that it will not get lost (see below). I've checked the build procedure and, indeed, the architecture detection is done by looking at the output of 'uname -m'. On Solaris this returns "sun4u" on ultrasparc hardware, our kernel returns 'sparc64'. I've made a simple patch against configure.ac (attached), which fixes the detection. When I apply this patch and the one mentioned earlier, the package builds fine. So if you have the reason to upload the 10.b.9 soon, please include them, at least it will not die while building on sparc. I see two other issues to take care of: the unreliability of the floating point exceptions which upstream mentioned, and the special flags which are passed to the assembler while building erlang. The former I'll have to look into, the latter might prevent the resulting binaries from working on sparc32 hardware. However, whether the support for such hardware will be included in etch is uncertain at this point, so this is not of immediate concern." I will include the patch in the Debian package, but I think it should also be considered for upstream inclusion.
--- a/erts/configure.ac 2005-12-29 13:21:21.000000000 -0800 +++ b/erts/configure.ac 2005-12-29 13:07:06.000000000 -0800 @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ esac ARCH=noarch case `uname -m` in -sun4u) ARCH=ultrasparc;; +sun4u|sparc64) ARCH=ultrasparc;; i86pc) ARCH=x86;; i386) ARCH=x86;; i486) ARCH=x86;;
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