Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:34:00 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: llvm on ia64 ? Message-ID: <20091218163400.GQ55913@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20091216151847.GA34025@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091216144906.GA23342@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091216145033.GA69013@freebsd.org> <20091216151847.GA34025@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 16.12.2009 at 15:18:47 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote: > > I wont comment the failure but llvm does NOT support generating IA64 > > code as the support for this was removed some 6 months or so ago.... > > > > what exactly do you want to use the llvm@ia64 for? > > replacement for gcc.. > > gcc44 and 45 fail to build on ia64. From what I can gather (I'm a > user, not a developer) after following this for some months on gcc bugzilla, > gcc folks do not really have a solution, or might not even understand > the problem. Lots of ports of interest to me are dependent on gcc44, > e.g. gfortran, blas, lapack, calculix, code_aster, etc. So I'm looking > for a possible replacement for gcc44 on ia64 Have you tried with a recent gcc45 port? It now depends on newer binutils, which is required to build it with -march=native on amd64, perhaps you're hitting the same base-binutils-is-too-freaking-old issue? hth, Uli
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