IA64, PowerPC and the irony of life

I've never expected to work on Intel's IA64, or never imagined even logging into an IA64 box. Ditto for PowerPC (although slightly less so).

However, I must have incurred some wrath from God (or put your favorite deity here) - otherwise I wouldn't be logged onto an IA64 box and a PowerPC box, trying to bootstrap a branch of gcc on them. Talk about ironies...