[M3devel] CM3 on IA64?

[Jay]

Scripts/python/boot(something).py
boot1.py?

 - Jay (phone)

On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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