[Rd] [PATCH] ./configure fails to recognize alphapca56 (R-1.

[Martyn Plummer]

On 15-Jun-00 Naoki Takebayashi wrote:
> I think I reported this bug in the past.  At that time, I was told that
> it is a bug of autoconf.
> 
> ./configure does not recognize Linux on DEC Alpha 21164PC (a cheap version
> of Alpha EV56), so all the compilation flags were set incorrectly.  I
> don't know the right way to fix it (I don't know how autoconf works
> yet ...), but the following patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Thank you,
> Naoki
> 
> Naoki Takebayashi     <ntakebay@bio.indiana.edu>
> --- Dept. of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall 142
> --- 1001 E. Third St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 USA
> 
> 
> --- R-1.1.0/tools/config.sub.orig     Thu Jun 15 13:49:01 2000
> +++ R-1.1.0/tools/config.sub  Thu Jun 15 14:00:25 2000
> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
>               | arme[lb] | pyramid | mn10200 | mn10300 | tron | a29k \
>               | 580 | i960 | h8300 | hppa | hppa1.0 | hppa1.1 | hppa2.0 \
>               | alpha | alphaev5 | alphaev56 | we32k | ns16k | clipper \
> +             | alphapca56 \
>               | i370 | sh | powerpc | powerpcle | 1750a | dsp16xx | pdp11 \
>               | mips64 | mipsel | mips64el | mips64orion | mips64orionel \
>               | mipstx39 | mipstx39el \
> @@ -177,6 +178,7 @@
>             | power-* | none-* | 580-* | cray2-* | h8300-* | i960-* \
>             | xmp-* | ymp-* | hppa-* | hppa1.0-* | hppa1.1-* | hppa2.0-* \
>             | alpha-* | alphaev5-* | alphaev56-* | we32k-* | cydra-* \
> +           | alphapca56-* \
>             | ns16k-* | pn-* | np1-* | xps100-* | clipper-* | orion-* \
>             | sparclite-* | pdp11-* | sh-* | powerpc-* | powerpcle-* \
>             | sparc64-* | mips64-* | mipsel-* \

The config.sub file is part of the GNU automake package and is meant to be
used as is.  The version on my system (automake-1.4) does have an entry for
alphapca5[67], so I guess the config.sub that comes with R just needs to
be replaced with an up-to-date version.

Martyn
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