Re: native linuxia64 compile possible

["Ross A. Towle" <rat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sun is quite correct.  If you take a look at the Pro64 webpages you can
install the rpms in two situations:
        1. as a cross compiler within the HP NUE environment
        (that gets you include files, libs, ld, as, ...)
or
        2. on the actual Itanium hardware.
        This is what we do at SGI and run using the IA-32 compatability
        feature of Itanium.

When I answered your question originally, I assumed you meant the compiler
as an IA-64 executable.

Using the IA32 compatibility feature of Itanium has been quite useful.  For
example, we have gotten around problems with perl by using an IA-32 version of
perl.

-Ross