Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am pleased to report that the IA-64 system on loan from HP to Agilent that > is in my possession is now happily running Debian GNU/Linux natively. This > machine arrived in my hands a few weeks ago "for evaluation" without an > operating system loaded, and since what I wanted to evaluate was Debian...
... > The current status is that I'm booting a 100% Debian root filesystem, and am > finishing up getting the right pieces in place to "start over" building > packages that are fit for upload. I have requested a binary-ia64 tree be > created, and expect that to happen soon. Package uploads should begin within > the next week. It seems completely possible that IA-64 could join the set of > supported ports for woody, but a lot of work remains between now and then! > > Before jumping the hurdle from running in the chroot environment to booting a > real Debian filesystem, we had over 600 .deb's built, including everything > relevant depended on by the boot-floppies package. There are a few ugly hacks > that need to be addressed, and a couple of repeatable internal compiler errors > in the very pre-release version of the compiler we're running, but I do not > expect it to take very long to get a respectable number of packages built and > uploaded. I realize many developers will make this kind of request but ... In the past, attempts to build the r-base package, which I maintain, have exposed compiler problems on different architectures. As an environment for statistical computing and graphics, R extensively exercises both floating point and integer computation. The `make check' that is done as part of the process of building the r-base Debian package performs several regression tests that can help pinpoint bugs. Those of us in the R Core Development Group would be very interested in whether the r-base package can be built on the IA64. I would be happy to help in whatever way I can.
