Add support for aarch64

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue May 14 14:58:52 WST 2013


On 05/13/2013 04:27:49 AM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As dropbear doesn't support AArch64, I hope the author can do  
> something in
> order to fix it. In fact I'm the packager of dropbear, some users  
> asked us
> why not support aarch64.
> 
> 
> To fix this, you can:
> 
> 1. Use at least autoconf 2.69 to reconfigure.
> 2. A patch at
> 
> http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/aarch64/dropbear/dropbear-aarch64.patch
> 
> which updates config.guess and config.sub to recognize aarch64.

Huh, I hadn't even noticed. My automatic native package builds do:

   for guess in $(find . -name config.guess)
   do
     rm -f "$guess" &&
     echo -e "#!/bin/sh\ngcc -dumpmachine" > "$guess" || exit 1
   done

on each package, because the gnu autoconf stuff is too dumb to live...

Rob


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