Hi

We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC Little Endian) architecture. I was looking at the package nettle from the latest release tarball ( http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.7.1.tar.gz ) and also from the git source (git://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle.git) and it failed to build the package on ppc64le machine because of outdated config.guess. since currently available config.guess does not have support for ppc64le it fails to guess correct build type.

Latest config.guess with ppc64le support is available at : http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess...

I verified building the package with latest config.guess mentioned above and it built fine in ppc64le platform. I would also like to inform that all make check test cases successfully passed in the new platform ppc64le.

Would it be possible to spin up a newer version of nettle for the distros to pick up from the upstream release tarball, which would support ppc64le. Please do let me know if you will be picking up the patches from upstream or you would require local patches to be provided. I can send out the patches to you.

I can help to validate the new release of the package works well by compiling on ppc64le machine.

Appreciate your response

Thanks and Regards Rajeshkumar S Linux Technology Centre, IBM