[WBEL-devel] AMD64 and IA64

[Pasi Pirhonen]

Hi,



On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:55:13AM -0600, donavan nelson wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 18:45:12 +0200, Pasi Pirhonen wrote
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Anyone already working with this except me?
> 
> I think all of the work is centered on getting the x86 release ready.  I have
> an interest in AMD64, but no time to work on it.

I'll work with this too. It's pretty much like Fedora Core. The
'test-version' of x86_64 is just now out.

Rebuilding the damn thing (i mean all) on Athlon64@2Ghz is something
like 16h, so it's not much to wait :)

The point propably being that if someone does some modifications (like
anaconda), he/she should not do it 'ix86 only' ....

>  
> > I have been playing 'with the real x86_64' and the only thing escapes
> > me if the rebuilding gcc. I just seem not to figure out how it should
> > be rebuilt so that you can compile ADA in too. Currently i have built
> > gcc w/o ADA, but that needs to be resolved.
> 
> ADA?  Does anyone use ADA? (ducking behind an old US army tank)

The gcc-3.2.x does build ADA/GNAT by default, so that should be
available. People at RedHat manages to build those, so it _must_ be
possible. I haven't just figured it out for x86_64 (IA64 is multilib
too and there is no problems tho).

> 
> > For IA64 it should be just matter of _time_. That is slow box when we
> > talk about compiling (IMO slow with anything :)
> 
> IA64 doesn't interested me (I don't have any modern Intel processors).  But
> I'm sure there are plenty who are interested.  When the time is right, I will
> make AMD64 and IA64 (plus whatever) sections available on whiteboxlinux.net.
>  

I think that when you start, you do it properly - all archs :)

How do i hook better for devel? Who is gonna trust me and sign my RPMS?
etc.?

I don't have much posibilitis to publish anything like release
(anymore), so there must be space for that too.


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