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On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Tony Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:02:45AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:04:03AM +1000, Tony Cook wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:28:04AM +1000, Tony Cook wrote:
> > > > > neptune:perl tony$ grep alignbytes config.sh
> > > > > alignbytes='8'
> > > >
> > > > Even if I set -Dalignbytes=16, it's ignored, because of:
> > > >
> > > > #if defined(USE_CROSS_COMPILE) || defined(MULTIARCH)
> > > > # define MEM_ALIGNBYTES 8
> > > > #else
> > > > #define MEM_ALIGNBYTES 16
> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > > > This appears to have been this way since the dawn of (metaconfig)
> > > > time.
> >
> > Just verifying -- If you change that first 8 to a 16, does it work?
>
> I tested removing the first branch of the #if combined with
> -Dalignbytes=16, which worked.
Thank you for testing. I'm still polishing a fix, but should get
something up in the next few days. It's complicated because metaconfig
(the tool used to build Configure) doesn't seem to work under recent
perls, though I haven't figured out why.
> This worked, passing all tests except porting/regen.t (since the
> canned config files aren't updated.)
Right. I'd probably have caught those too, but thanks for the
reminder.
Again, thank you for the quick testing.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu