amd64 vs x86_64

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:39:39AM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> --- Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> ha scritto: 
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:06:11AM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > I wonder if anyone builds gcc without the port:
> > 
> > I build gcc 10 to 20 times a week.  This includes
> > both the 4.1 branch and trunk.  Configure automatically
> > picks up the architecture.
> > 
> 
> Hmm...I extracted the gcc40 port here and it didn't finish the build without
> changing the arch to x86_64. Still it was very strange to find the same lines
> on all the gcc4x ports.

Build it from GCC sources.  Don't use the gcc40.

> > > I was building a preliminary g95 port.
> > 
> > Have you tried gfortran?  It is a part of GCC.  I use 4.1
> > (pre-release) gfortran everyday.  I routinely build and
> > test gfortran from gcc trunk.
> >
> Yes. I'm in the process of porting Elmer:
>     http://www.csc.fi/elmer/
> Last week the Elmer developers were recommending g95 and even mentioned that
> gfortran40 (which is the one of the ports tree) was not building Elmer. This
> week they had problems with g95 and now they are recommending gfortran.

Don't use gfortran40.  You want at least 4.1 pre-release.

-- 
Steve