On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:25:02 +0100 Eduardo Suarez-Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it easier to patch the source than to check whether it compiles? > Not for me. I'm not an expert.
It's easier for one person to fix the problem than it is for a hundred people all to work around it. > Anyway, I think different compilers understand different source, so > maybe the main developer is not concerned with source modification to > fit every compiler. In principle that's not really the case. C and C++ are both covered by standards. In an ideal world, everyone would write standard C or C++, and every compiler would accept standard C or C++. Upstreams who write non-standard code tend to get bitten hard when their compiler of choice arbitrarily changes its behaviour... > I work with numeric stuff and I'd love to compile many packages with > icc. At the moment, Erik Hahn's bashrc works fine, but I have to flag > packages myself. I think the main problem with Intel's compiler is that it only works with the libstdc++ shipped by whichever version of Red Hat they happen to like this week... If you try to report a bug saying that it can't compile when using the libstdc++ from gcc 4.5, they're not interested. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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