Re: 64bit changes, compiler issues

[Clinton Chee]

Hi John,

What version of ifort and icc/icpc do you use in Itanium, for your
successful build?

Cheers,
Clinton

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 22-Apr-2005, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | did anybody compile octave with the recent 64bit
> | changes enabled using gcc-4.0.0?
> | 
> | gcc-4.0.0 uses gfortran (fortran95 compliant) instead
> | of g77. gfortran can, by commandline option use 8-byte
> | integers.
> | 
> | I failed in even compiling gcc-4.0.0 on ia64 linux.
> 
> It is perhaps a bit premature to expect gfortran to compile Octave.
> There is at least one bug that prevents it from compiling all the code
> in Octave's libcruft directory.  I don't know the status of the -i8
> option.
> 
> In any case, I have sucessfully built Octave with
> 
>   configure --enable-64 F77=ifort FFLAGS="-i8 -O"
>   make
> 
> on an Itanium system (using the reference blas and lapack libraries,
> so they were also compiled with ifort -i8).  So I think once gfortran
> is in better shape, it should also be possible to use it to build a
> 64-bit capable version of Octave.
> 
> So, things are mostly working, but there are still some details to
> work out, like how to deal with external blas and lapack, how to make
> UMFPACK and COLAMD work, how to fix the binary file formats to support
> 64-bit dimensions, etc.
> 
> jwe
> 

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