Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

[Burcin Erocal]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:38:13 -0600
Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Burcin Erocal <burcin@××××××.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0600
> > Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face
> >> reality, we don't use it and we don't test it... Does anyone out
> >> there care about ia64-linux?
> >
> > I do. :)
> >
> > There are still many scientific users who have itanium boxes left
> > around. Even if they are migrating away from them, I'm sure these
> > are still used if possible.
> >
> > I haven't tried prefix on an ia64 box yet. We have one with gentoo
> > on it already. I can use that if you need someone to test stuff.
>
> So, the ML is not an extremely popular place to ask such a question
> with only ~210 people subscribed but I can only assume that it is a
> good subset of people that rely on Gentoo Prefix for $important
> reasons (business, personal, etc). With that, there was one response
> and you haven't even used it yet, Burcin.

I did actually. After writing that message, I started a build of my
prefix [1]. Admittedly, this is not the full gentoo-prefix, since it
uses the tool chain on the host, which runs gentoo itself:

burcin@... .../burcin/prefix-20111115 $ gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 4.5.3-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5) 4.5.3


[1] https://bitbucket.org/burcin/sage-prefix

I needed to add the profile for ia64. After that, initial bootstrap
went fine (build portage & baselayout-prefix). Then 148 of the 150
packages required for emerging Sage built successfully. Part of the log
is at the end of this message.

The problem in the 149th package is caused by --autounmask picking a
newer version of fplll than the one Sage supports. I will try to emerge
the right version and continue with the build. Running the Sage test
suite should exercise most of these packages that are installed.


> Therefore, I propose to drop the keyword(s) and leave the profiles
l> for
> now. Similar to what I did for arm-linux. That way, when you get
> around to trying ia64-linux, you have most of the guts and just need
> to modify ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, etc.
>
> Sounds like a fair compromise to me that sets proper expectations for
> future Gentoo Prefix users.

That's fine by me. I can set the necessary keywords with a
package.keywords file in the profile directory.


Cheers,
Burcin


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