Re: [Boost-users] Boost and Intel Compiler 11

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost and Intel Compiler 11
From: Matthieu Brucher (matthieu.brucher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-09 08:34:00

>>> The gcc version installed on the test platform may affect the
>>> results; The tests (link above) are run on RHEL/(most probably)gcc
>>> 4.1.2. I encountered the compilation issues for the first time on
>>> Fedora 9/gcc
>>> 4.3.0 but on Fedora 8/gcc 4.1.2 everything compiles fine. Why this
>>> should affect the compilation is a mystery to me.
>
> Me too, except the Intel compiler does emulate the installed GCC version.
> I'll attempt to emulate this on my ubuntu install later when I can get some
> free CPU cycles on my machine!  In the mean time if you could check to see
> if Intel-11 compiles the type_traits tests on the problem platform that
> would be great.

I've tested Boost 1.37 on our main cluster that has gcc 4.1.2, and
everything compiles correctly. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with gcc 4.3, where I
had the compilation failure.

Matthieu
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