On fredag 27. juli 2001 22:28, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings! > >Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:16PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >> > Camm Maguire wrote: >> > >> > >Greetings! Anyone using Debian on this platform? Anyone in the >> > >process of packaging the altivec capable binutils and/or gcc? Anyone >> > >interested? >> > > >> > Tons of people are using this platform. I don't know of anyone using it >> > for a Beowulf though.
http://www.totalimpact.com >> > But I'm sure there are users of atlas-using >> > packages... >> > >> > The relevant list is debian-powerpc. >> >> I doubt it, as atlas hasn't built for a bit: >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=blas-1.0:lapack-3.0:lib/Linux_fpu_shared >bin/Linux_fpu_shared/xsl3blastst -R all -N 10 1 >> 00 10 -M 10 100 10 >>debian/test/xsl3blastst >> bin/Linux_fpu_shared/xsl3blastst: error while loading shared >libraries: blas-1.0/libblas.so.2: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at >0x6ffd3e10 for symbol `scal_' out of range >> >> > >Yep, I've filed a bug against this. g77 cannot link a shared lib on >ppc, and f2c isn't available. The reference blas library is needed >for the atlas lib checks. Probably the easiest is to port f2c to >powerpc, if you'd like to help. Then I can NMU a blas, with >maintainers permission, to use it instead of g77 on the powerpc >platform, as with m68k. > > > >> All recent binutils are altivec capable. I expect that no one will >> ever package the AltiVec-capable GCC, as it is exceedingly unreliable. >> > >Thanks for the tip. The binutils are all that is needed. However, I >checked on voltaire, and the standard assembler there didn't seem to >understand the altivec assembly code put out by the altivec gcc, >whereas the altivec assembler did. Am I doing something wrong? > >Take care, > >> -- >> Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University >> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > >-- >Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] >========================================================================== >"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- >Baha'u'llah > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
