On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:49:15 -0800, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:

> breyfogle <breyfogle@aol.com> wrote:
>> The company I work for is in the process of transitioning from SGI
>> Unix boxes to HP-Ux Itainium machines (HP-UX 11.23i) and I need to
>
> There is 11iv2, which corresponds to an HP-UX 11.23 kernel, but there
> isn't any 11.23i
>
>> port several GNU software tools to the new Itainium. So far, I have
>> not been able to successfully build and install any of the GNU
>> software that I have tried. As a **very** newbie Itainium user, I'm
>
> Have you installed a compiler? While there is a "bundled" compiler on
> every HP-UX system, it is meant just for regenning the kernel and not
> for actually compiling applications. To that end, one should install
> a "real" compiler - either gcc or preferably (IMO, but that differs
> from others) the HP ANSI C/C++ compiler.
>
>> more than a little lost as to how to proceed. Is it even possible
>> to build GNU software on an Itainium machine and if so are there any
>> tricks, option overrides, or patches that are Itainium (or maybe
>> HP-UX) specific ? I've built a rair amount of GNU software in the
>> past, on various machines, and never had a significant problem so I
>> suspect there is something specific about setting up the configure
>> process for the Itainium.
>
> Without knowledge of the specific errors you are encountering, about
> the best anyone can suggest presently would be to point you at the
> HP-UX porting archives:
>
> http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
>
> and its mirrors. They contain a considerable quantity of freely
> available source applications ported to HP-UX. In addition, some of
> what you might want may be in the HP Internet Express bundles, which
> you should be able to find under:
>
> http://software.hp.com/
>
> rick jones
>
> BTW, I suspect the issues are with getting things setup under HP-UX
> rather than the hardware on which it is running.
>
Thanks for the reply. The new HP has the full install of HP's software
development tools, F90, ANSI C, C++.

I've been to the "hpux.connect.org.uk" site looking for info without
finding much of anything related to Itanium packages. That's actually the
site where I downloaded the source-code packages I'm working with.

As for build errors, It's hard for me right now to know what is important
and what isn't. When I first tried to build GNU a2ps, the configure
script failed because it could not identify a proper host. Setting the
host option to something the script would accept, moved the process a bit
further until a series of compile errors popped up indicating missing
header files (undefined typedefs mainly). Patching those (which should
not have been necessary) got the process to the link step which seemed to
complain about both missing shared libraries and unresolved references.

I'm guessing that the configure script only knows about standard PA-RISC
installations and an Itanium installation is enough different to confuse
the process. I


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