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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0600 |
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Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face |
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> reality, we don't use it and we don't test it... Does anyone out there |
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> care about ia64-linux? |
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I do. :) |
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There are still many scientific users who have itanium boxes left |
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around. Even if they are migrating away from them, I'm sure these are |
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still used if possible. |
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I haven't tried prefix on an ia64 box yet. We have one with gentoo on |
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it already. I can use that if you need someone to test stuff. |
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but here is some context: |
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I've been developing a (math oriented) scientific software distribution |
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[1] based on gentoo-prefix and sage-on-gentoo [2]. This relies on the |
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compiler and toolchain on the host instead of building everything from |
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scratch. Progress is rather slow, since I don't have much time to work |
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on this, but it's getting there. |
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[1] https://bitbucket.org/burcin/sage-prefix |
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[2] https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo |
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It can build Sage [3] with all it's dependencies (modulo jmol - a java |
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application for 3D graphs) on various linux distros. I don't have |
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access to any OSX machines other than a 10.5 PPC box, where everything |
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that doesn't need a fortran compiler works. I've had reports that OSX |
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10.6 is in a similar state. |
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[3] http://sagemath.org/ |
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I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions about how to go about this. |
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I didn't have any gentoo developer experience when I started. I'm sure |
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there are quite a lot of thing I need to learn. |
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Cheers, |
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Burcin |