I applied this patch as obvious. I missed submitting it in my original patch for the power9 support (it was in the sandbox I was testing power9 support on).
2015-11-10 Michael Meissner <meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> * config.gcc (powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*): Add power9 to hosts that default to 64-bit. -- Michael Meissner, IBM IBM, M/S 2506R, 550 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460-6245, USA email: meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com, phone: +1 (978) 899-4797
Index: gcc/config.gcc =================================================================== --- gcc/config.gcc (revision 230072) +++ gcc/config.gcc (working copy) @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ powerpc*-*-*) cpu_type=rs6000 extra_headers="ppc-asm.h altivec.h spe.h ppu_intrinsics.h paired.h spu2vmx.h vec_types.h si2vmx.h htmintrin.h htmxlintrin.h" case x$with_cpu in - xpowerpc64|xdefault64|x6[23]0|x970|xG5|xpower[345678]|xpower6x|xrs64a|xcell|xa2|xe500mc64|xe5500|xe6500) + xpowerpc64|xdefault64|x6[23]0|x970|xG5|xpower[3456789]|xpower6x|xrs64a|xcell|xa2|xe500mc64|xe5500|xe6500) cpu_is_64bit=yes ;; esac @@ -4131,7 +4131,7 @@ case "${target}" in eval "with_$which=405" ;; "" | common | native \ - | power | power[2345678] | power6x | powerpc | powerpc64 \ + | power | power[23456789] | power6x | powerpc | powerpc64 \ | rios | rios1 | rios2 | rsc | rsc1 | rs64a \ | 401 | 403 | 405 | 405fp | 440 | 440fp | 464 | 464fp \ | 476 | 476fp | 505 | 601 | 602 | 603 | 603e | ec603e \