Jason, The reason I said only i686 is supported is that the available machine types I saw in the lib directory did not include x86_64. Of course, I'll compile it there anyway using the appropriate flags, I just wanted to see if other architectures are included out of the box. Thanks, Simon Jason Stajich wrote on 10/25/2005 08:05 AM: > re: blat > > Now that is not really fair about changing all the makefiles, you only > need to edit inc/common.mk to set the CFLAGS/COPT and CC options. I > built blast with icc on i686 and gcc on x86_64 with no problems. > > I don't understand why you think i686 is only supported. just set the > $MACHTYPE variable. > > echo "MACHTYPE is: '$$MACHTYPE'" ; \ > echo "it should be something simple: i386 i686 sparc > alpha x86_64 ppc, etc..." ; > > So just edit the inc/common.mk to specify your compiler flags and set > the MACHTYPE environment variable to uname -m > > > -jason > > On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Tim Cutts wrote: > >> >> On 24 Oct 2005, at 7:44 pm, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Our lab is starting to test several server architectures by >>> compiling and timing programs like blast, blat and hmmer. The setups >>> are Darwin, regular i686, Intel's and AMD's X86_64 and IBM's ppc64. >>> >>> I've found that blat only has the i686 machine type as a compilation >>> option - not x86_64, and of course not Darwin or ppc64. Hmmer is >>> smarter better - it only lacks support for ppc64 (it has plain ppc >>> though). Does anyone know if it's possible to compile blat and hmmer >>> on these architectures? >>> >> >> I don't see why not, as long as you're using a suitable compiler. >> You'll just need to work out what the appropriate compiler options >> are. HMMER will probably work fine on ppc64, since it already >> supports other 64-bit architectures fine. The same goes for BLAT - >> it works fine on Alpha for us, so I see no reason why it shouldn't >> compile OK on other 64-bit architectures. >> >> You'll have fun finding the bazillion places in Jim Kent's makefiles >> that you need to make the changes though. >> >> Tim >> >> -- >> Dr Tim Cutts >> Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute >> GPG: 1024D/E3134233 FE3D 6C73 BBD6 726A A3F5 860B 3CDD 3F56 E313 4233 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> > > -- > Jason Stajich > Duke University > http://www.duke.edu/~jes12 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > -- Simon (Vsevolod ILyushchenko) simonf at cshl.edu http://www.simonf.com "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Henri Bergson