Re: Compiler for Tru64 + pkgsrc

[Jerome Ibanes <jibanes%gmail.com@localhost>]

Well, if you have the source, you might as well consider running it on
a different platform.
And if for interoperability reasons you have to run it on tru64, you
might consider crosscompiling it.

If you want to discuss off list, I can relate some of the methods
we've used to support tru64 and openvms applications for the past 20
years; those can not be ported, as they depend on hardware components
not available for modern systems.


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On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 6/5/16 8:27 AM, jerome ibanes wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone have a newer GCC compiled for tru64 for use with pkgsrc ?
>>
>> The latest I have compiled and used was gcc-4.4.7 on tru64. which is the
>> latest of the 4.4 branch and was released in 2012. I've used gmp-4.3.2 and
>> mpfr 3.1.3.
>>
>> Is 4.4.7 sufficient for pkgsrc?
>>
>>
>> Jerome
>
> It's days are numbered, but should be OK for now.  That's the gcc version
> used by CentOS 6, which is well supported.  I've had to do a few source code
> patches to get things working with 4.4.7, but so far it hasn't been a
> terrible hassle.
>
> On some packages (e.g. Pacific Bioscience genomics tools), I punted and
> added GCC_REQD=4.8 because the developers insist on using a handful of c++11
> features that aren't supported in 4.4.7.  This will probably become more
> common over the next couple years.
>
>     Jason
>