I just completed tricking the IBM XL compilers to install in Gentoo with a
multilb environment, glibc-2.3.6 and gcc-4.1.0.  I haven't done much testing
aside from a few basic MPI programs designed to stress our Myrinet cards,
but things seem to be working.

I decided to post the instructions as the next best thing I ever found dealing
with this topic was the following on the forums which never quite got
xlf installed,
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-300643-highlight-xlf+xserve.html

Anyways, as I'll probably have to do this all again and will have forgotten
how by then, I threw it on our blog.  Check it out if you're interested, but
note that this is the first time I've ever posted anything like a how-to publicly.

http://www.clusters.umaine.edu/blog/2006/05/24/gentoo-20060-64bit-userland-to-20060-multilib-with-gcc-410-r1-and-glibc-236-r4/
http://www.clusters.umaine.edu/blog/2006/05/24/tricking-the-ibm-xl-compilers-to-install-in-gentoo-linux/


-Justin Bronder

On 4/13/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brady Catherman wrote:
> It is my understanding that GCC 4.1 is considered totally unstable on
> gentoo. Anyways.. how would I go about getting the IBM compiler.. Ibm's
> web page flat out sucks for searching for things like that..

If you said 4.2, you might be closer. 4.1 works better in almost every
way than 4.0. Also if you take a look, the 4.1 ebuild is keyworded for
multiple architectures (but not ppc64), while 4.0 is -* except for ia64.

Regarding IBM, I always find them by searching for something like xlf,
xl, fortran, etc on their website.

Thanks,
Donnie
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