ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

["C. Bergström"]

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.

Currently the Open64 port to FreeBSD x86 isn't done, but has significant 
progress.  This was all held up for months because of me, but I now have 
access to a few new c/c++ compiler test verification suits that will 
help ensure the merge doesn't cause regressions.  In the coming 
weeks/months I'll try to get access to IA-64 and help out..

./C