[K42-discussion] What is the correct version of gcc, glibc, binutils, linux and linuxthreads required for a successful K42 build ?

[Patrick G. Bridges]

On Dec 21, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Orran Y Krieger wrote:

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> "Patrick G. Bridges" <bridges at cs.unm.edu> wrote on 12/21/2005  
> 09:11:40 AM:
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> > We've mostly been working on getting familiar with Xen 3.0 for doing
> > the x86_64/Xen port. One of my students, wrote a Xen minios for
> > x86_64/Xen to make sure he understood Xen well, and is now moving on
> > to the gcc 4 port. Hopefully things will be working there relatively
> > soon, but not yet.
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> Cool, that makes good sense. Patrick, are you starting the gcc 4  
> port on Power?   I know the focus on your side is intel, but it  
> would be good to get the fixes for the new compiler in there before  
> dealign with the x86 issues.

RIght, we'll be starting on PPC/gcc 4 first for exactly that reason.  
We're going to need to know a compiler for x86_64, too, and having  
gcc 4.1 should have less bugs and be faster on x86_64, too.
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> b.t.w.  Chris Matthews from victoria has been working with Jonathan  
> to extract the clustered object services from K42 to make them  
> generally useful for writting system software, as part of that they  
> should be getting it all working on x86 as well.  We may be porting  
> other components of k42 to x86 for other research experiments, so  
> please post your experiences regularly.

Will do.

-Patrick