We are trying to compile root for 64 bits on a IBM POWER7 machine. We are encountering some problems. Is ROOT supposed to compile on 64 bits? Some time ago (weeks), I think I found posts saying that was not supported. I cannot find those posts any more. However it looks to me strange that ROOT is not supported in a 64 bit architecture.
Hi,
CINT was only ported to little-endian 64 bit platforms … thus is not expected to work on 64 bit PowerPC.
Cheers,
Philippe.
Hello,
According to the following page, linuxppc64gcc is supported to build ROOT.
root.cern.ch/drupal/content/supp … hitectures
However when I try to compile ROOT 5.32 on our cluster(ppc64, RHEL 6.1, gcc 4.4.5) the compilation fails with the following message.
make: *** [core/base/src/G__Base1.cxx] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
make: *** Deleting file `core/base/src/G__Base1.cxx’
Is it possible to build/use ROOT on this system?
Cheers,
Tarak.
Hi,
we put the infrastructure in place for ppc64 but it never did work due to run time issues with CINT on 64-bit big endian. However, compilation did work, so there is something wrong with you compiler. Anyway, we’ll remove this option as it will not work (at run-time).
Cheers, Fons.
I think I remember that CINT (and ROOT, too) was running on IBM RS/6000 machines (e.g. PowerPC based) under AIX with the xlC compiler. Wasn’t this a 64-bit (at least some models) “big endian”?
And there were the “big endian” HP-PA RISC and IA-64 architectures under HP-UX (with aCC an g++ compilers), some of which were 64-bit, too.
Nope, in those days we ran ROOT only in 32-bit mode. 64-bit port was done on Alpha and later ia64 (Itanium) and amd64. Anyway, when moving to cling/clang this problem will go away. Current AIX port is 32-bit only.
Cheers, Fons.
How about SGI 64-bit and/or Sun SPARC?
Prepared, but never operational.
Why not put explicit notes for each of these “supported architectures” … something like … “(prepared but never operational)” … on the web page http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/supported-architectures and in the “root/config/ARCHS” file.
In the coming weeks many will be removed and only the list of currently supported remains.
Okay, thanks for the information. It has saved me some efforts.
Tarak.