llvm on ia64 ?

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:27:31PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:26:16PM +0000, giffunip at tutopia.com wrote:
> > FWIW;
> > 
> > For most of the scientific/CAD stuff you need a Fortran
> > compiler and llvm doesn't provide it.
> 
> I understand gcc frontend for llvm gives you fortran.
> 

llvm can be used within gcc's new plugin framework.
So, you would need both llvm and gcc to build on 
IA64.  Have you tried building gcc-4.3.5 on IA64?
gfortran in 4.3.5 is in fairly decent shape.

-- 
Steve