[Starkit] Options for HPUX itanium

[Jeff Hobbs]

Alan Peakall wrote:
> The current download matrix only shows tclkit binaries for 
> HPUX-pa_risc (not for HPUX-itanium).  I am interested in 
> obtaining a tclkit (or tclkitlite) for hpux-11.23-itanium 
> which has no external dependency on "libstdc++.so". I have 
> attempted a "lite" build using gcc v3.3.3, but encountered 
> problems (the "sh genkit D" step fails with an open error 
> raised by the pre-intialisation script; this, in turn, 
> inhibits the loading of "vfs").  In the process I observed 
> that the metakit source has conditionals on the symbols 
> __ia64 and on __HP_aCC.  Does this mean that the full port 
> has been successfully completed using the HP c++ compiler for itanium?

You can certainly build tclkits using HP's CC.  We do this
at ActiveState (HP ia64 is one of our Enterprise Edition
platforms).

  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos