[PPL-devel] Fwd: Re: compiler warnings ppl-0.10

[Roberto Bagnara]

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Subject: Re: [PPL-devel] compiler warnings ppl-0.10
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:28:56 +0200
From: Dieter Demerre <ddemerre at gmail.com>
To: Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it>

On 29 Sep 2010, at 11:01, Roberto Bagnara wrote:

> On 09/28/10 15:51, Dieter Demerre wrote:
>> A quick walkthrough directed me to:
>> - cc1: Unrecognized option `-frounding-math'
>> - cc1plus: Unrecognized option `-frounding-math'
>> the -frounding-math option option that's probably new.... (in more
>> recent gcc)
>> (not yet present in gcc-2.95,...). Is this option required ? (at this
>> level ?)
>> which would explain the failure on the header file check / compilation.
>
> Dear Dieter,
>
> please see README.configure, where is says:
>
>  It should be noted that no version of GCC prior to 4.0.3 is known to
>  reliably compile PPL 0.10.
>
> I can strengthen this by saying that really there is no way
> to compile the PPL with GCC 2.95.
>
> > Currently,... I'm (attempting) to compile gcc-4.5.0 without ppl support,
> > and after this was successful (hope, hope),... try to compile the ppl
> > library again, and compile gcc again too.
>
> Yes, this is the right thing to do.
> Friendly regards,
>
>   Roberto

Thanks for the response, and my apologies for not reading the documentation.  In my defense,... this documentation more regularly than not only contains the "general" instructions "execute  ./configure followed by make and make install" and stuff.  Hence I refrained from reading it.
I should make a habit of - if the first attempt fails - first read more documentation instead of thinking: "Now that is something these developers didn't think about".

Greetings.
dd