[Help-glpk] MMIX cross-compilation / new wikibook entry

[Robbie Morrison]

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To:           Robbie Morrison <address@hidden>
Subject:      Glpk wikibook
Message-ID:  <address@hidden>
From:         Andrew Makhorin <address@hidden>
Date:         Tue, 29 May 2012 12:34:02 +0400
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> Hi Robbie,
>
> Could you please add to the section
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLPK/Cross_Compilation the
> following information:
>
> "Glpk can be cross-compiled for MMIX, a 64-bit RISC
> computer designed by Prof. Don Knuth
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX>. You can find brief
> instructions how to do this in the file Makefile_MMIX,
> which is included in the Glpk distribution."
>
> I think that Glpk is the only non-toy package which has
> this property.
>
> Thank you for your efforts on creating the glpk
> wikibook.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrew Makhorin

Hello Andrew

Just added the material you suggested:

  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLPK/Cross_Compilation#MMIX_target

Please let me know if it needs correcting.

To the list more generally, the wikipedia page on MMIX
(URL given above) makes interesting reading.

best wishes, Robbie
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Robbie Morrison
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Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany
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