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Mark, don't download any .tgz.<BR>Use cvs to checkout the entire source tree.<BR>Later..<BR> <BR> - Jay<br> <BR><div>> Subject: RE: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?<br>> From: mark@wickensonline.co.uk<br>> To: jay.krell@cornell.edu<br>> CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:02:43 +0100<br>> <br>> Hi Jay,<br>> <br>> I've downloaded and unpacked <br>> <br>> -rw-r--r-- 1 msw msw 276571 Oct 4 06:51 cm3-scripts-5.8.6-REL.tgz<br>> -rw-r--r-- 1 msw msw 89649351 Oct 4 06:46 cm3-src-all-5.8.6-REL.tgz<br>> <br>> (I assume the first is contained in the 2nd?) but I don't see the script<br>> scripts/python/bootstrap.py anywhere.<br>> <br>> You are welcome to ssh access, I'll just need to know when to leave the<br>> box running.<br>> <br>> Regards, Mark.<br>> <br>> <br>> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 01:06 +0000, Jay K wrote:<br>> > Can you give me or any of us ssh access to it?<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Porting is much much easier these days.<br>> > Really, it is not difficult.<br>> > If gcc supports the target and the target is reasonably Posix<br>> > compliant, there is almost nothing to do.<br>> > These are both true for Linux/ia64.<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Can you try?<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > See<br>> > http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/doc/notes/porting.txt?rev=1.6;content-type=text%2Fplain<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > or just go ahead and<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > cd scripts/python <br>> > ./bootstrap.py IA64_LINUX <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > It *might* just work.<br>> > It will certainly almost work.<br>> > There is really very little to it.<br>> > There never was a whole lot really, but there is a lot less now.<br>> > A big part used to be rewriting /usr/include in Modula-3, which was<br>> > tedious, error-prone, and unsafe.<br>> > That is gone now.<br>> > Before pthreads, another part was dissecting jmpbuf.<br>> > That is gone now -- even for user threads.<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > - Jay<br>> > <br>> > > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:18:17 +0100<br>> > > From: mark@wickensonline.co.uk<br>> > > To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> > > Subject: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?<br>> > > <br>> > > Hi guys,<br>> > > <br>> > > Has anyone attempted a port of CM3 to Itanium architecture?<br>> > > I've recently installed gentoo on my ZX6000 and it's all running<br>> > very <br>> > > nicely.<br>> > > My thoughts turned to what would be involved in getting Modula-3<br>> > running.<br>> > > <br>> > > Kind regards, Mark.<br>> > > <br>> > <br>> <br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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