ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:36:02AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:57:52PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Ports lang/gcc43, 44 and 45 fail to build on 8.0-beta2 ia64:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40959
> > 
> > I know they build fine on 6.4-stable alpha, but what about sparc64?
> > amd64? mips?
> 
> You can check things like this using the Ports Monitoring tool:
> http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=gcc4&wildcard=yes
> 
> According to that, for 8.0:
> 
>  - gcc4* are set to "not for ia64".  From a commit log for gcc43/Makefile:
> 
>     Add ia64 to NOT_FOR_ARCHS.  This has been broken for ages, it is not clear
>     whether it is our kernel/userland, the hardware, or something else at fault
>     and nobody on our side nor upstream seems to have any interest.

yes, I understand.. Unfortunately a FBSD system without gcc4x is of little
use to me, because I need fortran OMP compiler, and many other ports
which depend on gcc4x.

I wonder if they work under ia64 linux?

> amd64, i386, and sparc64.  Although we have some ia64 machines, the last
> time I tried to upgrade them I had trouble.  We do not yet have any arm,

I volunteer to build gcc4x ports on my rx2600 SMP ia64 current.

> mips, or powerpc machines.  Our alphas have been deinstalled (sorry),
> after the alpha src code had fallen too far behind the main 3 archs, and
> no one was keeping it up.

yes, I gave up on alpha because of this.

> Unless a developer with specific interest in ia64 steps up to help,
> you may be out of luck.  Sorry.

well.. unfortunately I've no relevant skills to offer, only testing.

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