ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:10:32AM -0700, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >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.
> (Dropping the other lists since this is IA-64 specific)
> 
> 
> Open64 is highly optimized for IA-64, but also needs a GCC front-end
> to function.  In regards to this there may be code or bug fixes
> floating around.

but there's no Open64 FreeBSD port, is there?

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