Support for the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64) was introduced in autoconf 2.69. alpine appears to use an earlier version of autoconf, preventing its being built. This can be fixed in of three ways (In order of preference): 1. Work with upstream to migrate the package to autoconf 2.69. 2. Rerun autoconf or autoreconf in %prep or %build prior to running configure. 3. Apply the patch at http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/aarch64/alpine/alpine-aarch64.patch which updates config.guess and config.sub to recognize aarch64.
Thanks. "upstream" may be changing, see BZ 838359
Dear Joshua, Are you (RedHat) distributing version 2.69 of autoconf? For how long have you been distributing it and what percentage of your users are using a distribution that supports autoconf 2.69? If these numbers are not very high, probably the patch would be the way to go. I do not want to impose a requirement on something that is not really needed for most users. Alpine requires version 2.57 (from 2002), so moving to version 2.69 might not be the best idea today, but later on (where "later" is undefined as to when "later" arrives). Do you have any thoughts? -- Eduardo
Hi Eduardo, Fedora 18 includes autoconf 2.69, the build system supports it, and it will be a requirement for ARM64 users. While a low percentage of Fedora or Red Hat users have updated to autoconf 2.69 to support aarch64, generally users don't use autoconf, just the binaries or source we provide which already generated configure and so on. So the status at this point is that it seems like a good time for upstream to support the new aarch64 platform if possible. Otherwise we would need to rerun autoconf or autoreconf to build for this platform.
Hi, We've switch upstream, could we get the ARM 64 patch rebased against alpine 2.11 ? http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/src/alpine-2.11.tar.xz A bunch of Hunks FAILED on this one.
Being automake-based, fedora's new %configure macro should handle this automatically (it copies in fresh known-good versions of config.guess and config.sub and friends)
OK if this is handled automatically I'll close this bugzilla.
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=212753 alpine is built fine