ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

["C. Bergström"]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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?
>   
Not complete, but 97% yes.

http://pkg.osunix.org/open64/open64-opensolaris-fbsd-merged-3-24.diff.gz

This is one of my future items so it will eventually get finished..  
(Pathch is x86 only, but IA-64 will also happen)  I don't want to say 
this is a low priority, but I have things I must do before I complete 
this so I don't make my job harder.