[M3devel] CM3 on IA64?

[Mark Wickens]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 06:04 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> Mark, don't download any .tgz.
> Use cvs to checkout the entire source tree.
> Later..

OK, will do.

However, even browsing cvs I didn't see the script you mentioned.

Regards, Mark.


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