Hi,
> I have downloaded xlc ibm compiler for suse (trial version) but ppc64
> isn't supported by alien. So I unpacked everythings but I didn't
> success in running it (xlc doesn't found 1501-231 message). Does
> somebody already have done it ?
>
> I really want to run it under debian since I don't want to switch to
> suse for our project (mix of blade JS20 center,OpenPower,xserve...).
You need the install scripts in the rpm. Luckily alien handles the
conversion OK. I got around the ppc64 target issue by unpacking all of
the rpms and changing the target from ppc64 to powerpc:
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
for i in ../*rpm
do
alien -g --scripts $i
done
for i in `find . -name control`
do
perl -i -p -e 's/ppc64/powerpc/' $i
done
for i in `ls -d * |grep -v orig`
do
cd $i
./debian/rules binary
cd ..
done
Then install the debs and run the configure script. You can try and
convert /opt/ibmcmp/vac/7.0/bin/new_install to understand debs or else
just run the vac_configure script directly. Assuming you dont have a
biarch toolchain (which is the case with debian), and you have a 64bit
capable toolchain in usr/local/ppc64, you can run:
/opt/ibmcmp/vac/7.0/bin/vac_configure -smprt /opt/ibmcmp/xlsmp/1.5 -mass
/opt/ibmcmp/xlmass/4.1 -vac /opt/ibmcmp/vac/7.0 -install
/opt/ibmcmp/vac/7.0/etc/vac.base.cfg -gcc /usr -gcc64 /usr/local/ppc64 -vacpp
/opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/7.0 -vacpprt /opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/7.0 -vaclic /opt/ibmcmp/vac/7.0
And for xlf:
/opt/ibmcmp/xlf/9.1/bin/xlf_configure -smprt /opt/ibmcmp/xlsmp/1.5 -mass
/opt/ibmcmp/xlmass/4.1 -xlf /opt/ibmcmp/xlf/9.1 -install
/opt/ibmcmp/xlf/9.1/etc/xlf.base.cfg -gcc /usr -gcc64 /usr/local/ppc64 -xlfrt
/opt/ibmcmp/xlf/9.1 -xlflic /opt/ibmcmp/xlf/9.1
PS we really need a biarch toolchain but are blocked by the debian
release cycle (we need an updated glibc).
Anton
