[PPL-devel] Fwd: ppl 0.11.2 vs llvm

[Jack Howarth]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 12:44:56AM -0600, Anthony Foiani wrote:
> Jack --
> 
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> > Attached is a build and make check log from x86_64 Fedora 10
> 
> Just by-the-by, Fedora 10 is ancient in Fedora terms. (Fedora 13 has
> already been "end of life"ed.)
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules#Fedora_10_.28Codename:_Cambridge.29
> 
> It might be worth upgrading your system just to make sure it's not an
> outdated library that happens to be causing some of these problems.
> (Not that it's not still valuable information, but sometimes
> developers have to decide whether they spend time supporting old
> infrastructure vs. adding/improving features, and I know which I'd
> prefer...)
> 
> (Having said that, RHEL5 is probably about as modern as Fedora 10, and
> lots of people are still there, so compile issues on that platform are
> probably still relevant...)
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony

Tony,
   The same exact failures are seen with the llvm based compilers under darwin10/11.
This has nothing to do with the other devtools on the system but rather with the fact
that llvm-based compilers currently don't support -frounding-math (which ppl assumes
will be present in some form).
                  Jack

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