Hi all!
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> As you may or may not know, some of the major supercomputers
> these days (Cray XT3 and IBM BlueGene) require cross-compiling:
> the front-ends run GNU/Linux, but the actual compute nodes run
> some half-baked pseudo-POSIX-ish mini
Steffen Dettmer wrote:
Does this mean you have no way to compile any program running on
the front-end GNU/Linux?
No, if you ./configure without a --host argument it uses the gcc for the
front-end (build system) and compiles for the BlueGene front end like
one would expect.
You mean, you wa
* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:06:08AM CEST:
> [moving to autoconf-patches, replies can drop autoconf]
Hmm, it's good to have input from the experience of others on this.
> @@ -16345,7 +16355,11 @@ Limitations of Builtins
> specified signals to their default values, but many commo
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Steven,
* Steven G. Johnson wrote on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:42:23PM CEST:
How do the autoconf developers feel about my proposed solution, which
should allow --host to work normally on BlueGene?
Sounds fairly safe, although it's not a show-stopper to not have it.
