Hello Andreas et al. -- So far (and with only one exception, see below) I've been very pleased with SL4.1 ... it runs my preferred astronomy CCD data reduction and analysis package ( http://www.aao.gov.au/figaro ) just fine. The purpose of my inquiry was just to get a better idea how many SL users are out there running on ia64, and just how active software/OS development on this architecture is.
My work is not being held back because I don't have SL 4.6 or SL 5.x for ia64. Apologies if I gave anyone that impression. However my work would benefit from having openmotif-2.1.3X (deemed the last official "stable" release by the Open Group) available for ia64 as an rpm. I've located source code here: http://www.ist-inc.com/DOWNLOADS/motif_files/openmotif-2.1.32_IST.source.tar .gz but just following the FAQ directions to build it from source, I was not successful (I'm a Fortran-77 applications programmer [to support my science research] at heart, so I struggle with code in C and unix/Linux system admin tasks). Reportedly this version (openmotif-2.1.32_IST) has been ported to x86-64, but to what extent this simplifies the task of building it under ia64, I don't know. In the meantime my workaround is "twm" (which I don't much care for as a user, but at least it allows the image display tool in figaro to run without a segmentation violation and core dump that happens under openmotif-2.2.3-9 ... problems I've never had on previous platforms [32-bit and 64-bit] running the stable and official openmotif-2.1.3X "mwm" versions). ((My earlier 64-bit RH7.3 platform was a DEC Alpha and the 64-bit OpenMotif 2.1.3X that I ran on it is found here: http://ftp4.de.freesbie.org/pub/misc/metrolink/openmotif/current/ if that helps any with the creation of an Itanium version...)). Keep in mind I have a "workaround" using twm, so if building openmotif-2.1.3X for ia64 is a big job having little or no benefit to the SL community except for me ... maybe nevermind? Cheers, -- Jim Andreas Hirstius wrote (Fri, 11-Apr-2008 1:13pm): > Hi Jim, > > After a few detours I finally got your mail. > I'm the contact for SLC (Scientific Linux CERN) on Itanium. > We have ~100 Itanium boxes here... > Coming to your question/problem. > The development of SL for Itanium was stopped with version 4.1 > > SLC, on the other hand, is still being maintained, so SLC4.6 > is available. > SL5.x is not available for Itanium since there were no users... > I wanted to start working on SLC5.x for Itanium when I have > time for it ... it wasn't urgent because, up to now, I would > have been the only user. > How soon would you need SL(C) 5 for Itanium? > Would you be able to help a bit with (possible) debugging ? > Best Regards, > Andreas Hirstius > P.S.: Your mailserver blocks messages from CERN because we're > supposedly a source of spam...
