Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:01:47 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a little help with Compaq Fortran Message-ID: <14492.25450.986008.933941@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002050616400.43876-100000@malkavian.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002050616400.43876-100000@malkavian.org>
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brian j. peterson writes: > i am trying to install the Compaq Fortran compiler on my alpha. the > Compaq download page is offering install packages for RedHat 6.0, RedHat > 5.2, and Debian. which is better suited for FreeBSD/alpha 4.0-CURRENT? We don't currently support linux emulation on the alpha. I'm working on it & have simple things like bash running right now. I've downloaded one of the compilers (ccc actually) and will be testing it this weekend. Bear in mind that this work is low priority for me, since my employers have real Tru64 alphas around & we use them for compiling OSF/1 binaries with the Compaq compilers. As an aside, linux/alpha emulation is more challenging than you might think. This has more to do with the disgusting, hackish nature of linux than any fault (eg 32-bit-ism) of our linux-emu. Linux uses different syscall numbers & different flags for syscall args on different ports. Many system calls even behave differently. Little things like pipe are totally different between the x86 & the alpha. I realize they did this when they bootstrapped of of osf/1, but they really should have reverted to their native numbers/flags. Its really quite a mess.. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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