[kaffe] IA-64 status

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Svante Arvedahl wrote:

> > I am surprised you even succeeded in compiling the Klasses from a
> > gcc-"2.96" built kaffe. It used to fail in the past. I will check again.
> 
> Well, we had to do some hacking of course. I think that's where we had
> to give libtool absolute paths instead of ../.. that was in the scripts.

I meant kaffe did not even compile its Klasses files cause of an 
unexpected error.

> > In the mean time, the packages I built for MDK 8.1/ia64 are available
> > here: <http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gbeauchesne/ia64/kaffe/>. Or any
> > other mirror for the 8.1 distribution actually.
> 
> Actually I'm interested in the source code. I've checked out a snapshot
> from 1 sep 2001, since the current version doesn't work. But there's no
> ia64 directory in config. Should I add some stuff to the snapshot if I'm
> using ia64? Should I check out a later version?

Get the SRPM on the above mentioned link, there is the ia64 patch too.

Bye,
Gwenole