Hi Alan, > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com] > To Jerry and Arjen: > > On Sunday (just before commit 7ec926fae) I discovered that my installs of > gdc-7 > and gnat-7 were probably not good choices because although I had both gcc-7 > and > gcc-8 installed, PLplot was being built with gcc-8 rather than gcc-7 on my > Debian > Buster system. So in this case at least Debian does not have tight version > consistency requirements between either gdc or gnat and gcc. And perhaps > that is > justified since previously I was getting perfect results with the combination > of gdc-7 > and gcc-8. > However, the above parallel build issue with gnat-7 encouraged me to try > gnat-8, > and I decided to install gdc-8 as well just to be consistent with gcc-8. > It turns out (see the above commit message for the details) the combination > of gdc- > 8, gnatmake-8, and gcc-8 produces perfect massively > (-j10) parallel build and test results > for a comprehensive set of of configurations and build trees, and for three > different > CMake versions. > > So it seems once again that on Linux at least, parallel builds of our Ada > bindings > and examples work well, and I advise on other platforms to avoid gnat-7 in > all cases, > to use parallel builds with caution, and at least for the sake of consistency > use the > same version of gdc, gnat, and gcc (e.g., gdc-8, gnat-8, and gcc-8). >
I just checked the Cygwin set-up: there is at this moment at least no version 8 available within that environment. I do not know if there are any plans to incorporate it, but I will keep an eye out. Regards, Arjen DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
