Re: [X10-developers] Support for Solaris?

[Igor P. <ig...@us...>]

Hi, Richard,

It's best to keep these discussions on-list, so that others can benefit
from them.

I have just uploaded a Solaris/Ultrasparc build of PGAS, as well as a
build of X10 from SVN HEAD (post-1.7.4, so it may be somewhat unstable).
Feel free to try building from the 1.7.4 sources instead.  I'm not
officially announcing this release, since it's unsupported, but if you
make changes for stability on Solaris, please consider contributing
them back to the X10 project.

We do have a test suite, but its invocation and results are somewhat
hard to interpret when run from the command line.  Try invoking
x10.tests/bin/xtestScript++ from x10.tests/examples (use the absolute
path to the script; you'll also need to supply it with a list of
tests -- I usually use -list "`find . -name \*.x10`").  That will
produce a couple of log files (*run* and *err*) in the ./log
subdirectory.

It would be interesting to find out what exactly you plan to do with
X10.
        Igor

Richard Gomes <rgo...@go...> wrote on 06/12/2009 07:16:24 AM:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your message.
> 
> At the moment I'm moving my developement environment (and other stuff)
> from Debian Lenny to Solaris 10.
> 
> After you give me a green light I will try to build X10 for Solaris 
> and I will be able to concentrate more efforts on X10.
> Please let me know if you have a test suite intended to validate 
> PGAS+X10 functionality.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Richard Gomes
> http://www.jquantlib.org/index.php/User:RichardGomes
> 
> On Thursday 11 June 2009 13:50:00 you wrote:
> > Richard Gomes <rgo...@ya...> wrote on 06/09/2009 11:12:53 
AM:
> > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Is there a release for Solaris 10 ?
> > > If not, what should I do to build/install using gcc?
> > > FYI, I have gcc/gmake and some other GNU tools installed and they 
> > > already proved to work fine.
> > 
> > Hi, Richard,
> > 
> > Currently, there is no Solaris release.
> > 
> > The main problem with moving to a new platform is making a binary
> > build of the (A)PGAS runtime available for that platform.  Since
> > that runtime is not open-sourced, the build will have to be done
> > by us.  I will scare up a Solaris PGAS build in the next few days
> > and post it on the download page.  Once that is done, you could
> > try to build the rest.  Also note that our runtime was not tested
> > on Solaris, so we can provide functionality or performance
> > guarantees.
> > 
> > I am now testing a Solaris build of the whole X10 system.
> >         Igor
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Igor Peshansky  (note the spelling change!)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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