Re: [X10-developers] Support for Solaris?

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

Hi, Richard,

Ah, the fact that you we using x86 was the crucial bit of information
missing from the previous emails.  Getting you a Solaris/x86 build is
problematic, since we don't really have a machine with this
configuration.  Given the constraints of the team, I doubt we'll be
able to support such a configuration, though I could try installing
Solaris in a virtual machine at some point -- no promises on when that
will happen, though.

Thanks for the contributions.  It's usually best to contribute in the
form of patches (diffs) against SVN HEAD.  Also, the easiest way to
track those patches is not on the mailing list, but rather as a JIRA
item.  So, please open a JIRA issue for Solaris/x86 support, and attach
your patches there.  But see below for comments on your changes.

FYI, most of our scripts already require make to be GNU make and find
to be GNU find.  We've been fixing xargs usage to be less dependent
on the GNU xargs (ditto for tar), but may have missed a few cases --
patches are welcome.

The "Unrecognized platform" message is a sanity check in the x10c and
x10c++ scripts.  You can override it by setting "X10_PLATFORM=sunos_x86"
in your environment.  This should let you proceed past the generation
of the C++ sources for the libraries, but you will not be able to build
them anyway, because of the lack of the PGAS build for your system.

We are planning to release API spec for the part of the PGAS API needed
by the X10 compiler, so that others can try different library
implementations.  Once that happens, you could also try implementing
such a library on Solaris by using another (hopefully already existing)
transport layer.

In any case, if you can try running some of your experiments with Linux
while the Solaris/x86 build is unavailable, we'd be interested in what
you find.

Thanks for your interest in X10.
        Igor

Richard Gomes <rgo...@ya...> wrote on 06/13/2009 03:53:42 PM:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> My platform is not sunos_sparc but sunos_x86. I suppose I will not be 
> able make use of the files you deployed.
> 
> Anyway, below you can see the changes I've done.
> I'm attaching the referenced files for your information.
> 
> 
> 1. ./x10.runtime.17/build.xml
> 
> I'm using gcc toolchain instead of Sun toolchain, so I changed make by 
gmake.
>     <property name="make.exe" value="gmake"/>
> 
> 
> 2. ./x10.runtime.17/src-cpp/Makefile
> Still due to gcc toolchain, I had to change find by gfind and xargs by 
gxargs.
> XARGS=gxargs
> FIND=gfind
> ... and wherever these equivalences are used.
> 
> 
> 
> 3. When I tried to build...
> export LOCAL_POLYGLOT_JAR=../polyglot/lib/polyglot-epl.jar
> cd polyglot && ant clobber eclipse-plugin-jar
> 
> 
> ... works fine but ...
> 
> 
> cd x10.dist && ant distclean dist

> ... does not like my platform :( as you ca see below:
> 
> gen-xrx:
>      [echo] Building Java sources for XRX
>      [echo] x10c -c Dummy.x10 x10/array/BaseArray.x10 
> x10/array/BaseDist.x10 x10/array/BaseRegion.x10 x10/array/DistArray.
> x10 x10/array/EmptyRegion.x10 x10/array/FastArray.x10 
> x10/array/FullRegion.x10 x10/array/Layout.x10
> ... a bunch of others ...
> x10/util/concurrent/atomic/AtomicInteger.x10 
> x10/util/concurrent/atomic/AtomicLong.x10 
> x10/util/concurrent/atomic/AtomicReference.x10 
> x10/util/concurrent/atomic/Fences.x10
>      [exec] Unrecognized platform: 'SunOS,i86pc,i386'
> 
> Notice: I haven't even downloaded the file you uploaded because the 
> platforms dont match and I havent defined X10LIB environment variable.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard Gomes
> 
> 
> 
> Igor Peshansky wrote: 
> 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
-- 
Igor Peshansky  (note the spelling change!)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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