Opensource products on Itanium?

[Steve Post]

We've been planning to buy two rp4440 servers. But we'd like to instead get 2 itanium servers. One of the things that keeping us from making the change is the fact that we have a some opensource programs that have been built on PA-Risc (K570 HPUX11.0).

So we would be switching to 11iV2, itanium.

1. Is anyone building/compiling opensource sw on itanium boxes?

I would be building gcc, binutils, gmake, gd, php, apache, perl, sybperl, jconnect, java, openadapter, gettext, openssl, openssh, zlib, mysql, mod_perl.

Even if I do this, the production box is running PA-Risc.

2. Is it possible to build it all as if it is running on a PA-Risc even though it is on an itanium? (Yeah I know. Looks I already have my answer on Question 2 here. It's a pretty big leap. I should swap out the this production box too).

Any experiences and opinions would be appreciated.

Steve

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Hello Steve,

It is all available on Itanium.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

You will see many of these open source utilities available for Itanium.

Internet Express v2 is for Itanium/PA-RISC 11.23

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1123

SEP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

It's even simpler to build open source projects on Itanium than it is on PA-RISC.

Been there, done that :)

Start with the porting center's. They have gone through a HUGE improvement over the past few years. The only drawback is that they use too much dependencies: all utils are built *with* nls support, which is IMHO unneeded and pure bloat.

But when you have all the deps installed, they offer very recent builds for anything you need, and update very soon after new releases.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ who would still choose pa-risc over Itanium ]

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi Steve,

A lot of binaries are available through

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,4682,00.html

[rick jones]

Well, first, you can probably run the PA-RISC binaries of those opensource programs on your Itanium servers (running HP-UX at least :)

And if the connect.org stuff doesn't have something ported, it may be in the HP Internet Express bits, which should be available via software.hp.com for no charge.

[Steve Post]

Thanks for the responses. I would have assigned points sooner, but internet went down for me.

steve