Tue Mar 11 13:19:45 IST 2003
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On real Itanium systems, builds with GCC are fine. If you're using the
Intel compiler `ecc', you need:

	CC=ecc ./configure && make all check install CFLAGS='-g -Drestrict='

Tue Apr 16 13:55:15 IDT 2002
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The current version of the IA-64 environment builds gawk without any problems.

Wed Apr 25 17:17:01 IDT 2001
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The Intel IA-64 emulation environment that sits on top of 32-bit Linux
has problems.  Gawk does not work on it.

1. The `sgicc' compiler lies to `configure' and pretends it's gcc. But it
really isn't, and several things don't work.

2. Even if used with gcc, the executable doesn't run; somehow quoted
strings don't stay as one argument to gawk, which is, of course,
disastrous.

3. It's flaky; initially `configure' wouldn't even get past the getpgrp
test.  Then later it would.

Arnold Robbins
arnold@skeeve.com