i) that hppa (in the way configure sees it) is not supported:
checking if .size is needed... yes
checking if .align directive takes logarithmic value... no
configure: error: No atomic primitives available for hppa-unknown-linux-gnu
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
Now, configure and aclocal have lots of 'hppa*64' statements. Is it
enough to turn these into 'hppa*64*|hppa*linux*' or something similar ?
This issue has previously been logged in the Debian Bug Tracking System,
see http://bugs.debian.org/431631