Hello All, I wanted to play around with the free (as in beer) Intel C++ compiler. It was a bit of work to get it going on Sid. I thought I'd post my experiences to debian-user. These instructions might be invalid in a week. I'm not a glibc pro so I can't say....
PS Please don't flame me about using the Intel compiler. I'm not advocating it, and I think the GNU compiler is great. I just wanted to play around with it. Anyway, here goes. 1) Go to http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/ and create a Premier Support Account. It's free. 2) Log in. 3) Download the latest version of the compiler for RedHat 7.1 As of the writing of this email, the file is cc_rh71_020201.tar. 4) Download the file LinuxOtherOSSupport5_0_1.tar. 5) Untar cc_rh71_020201.tar 6) Run alien --to-tgz on all .rpms (making .debs failed for me) 7) Run tar -xzf on all resulting .tgz files. This yields an "/opt" directory 8) The install is self-contained and you can put it where you want (that is, it writes nothing to system dirs like /usr/include. I like /usr/local for stuff like this (when there is no .deb file) so I did this: cp -a opt/intel /usr/local 9) Edit /usr/local/intel/compiler50/ia32/bin/iccvars.sh and iccvars.csh, replacing <INSTALLDIR> with /usr/local/intel. I don't have a 64 bit machine so I ignored the ia64 directory. 10)Untar LinuxOtherOSSupport_5_0_1.tar 11) Follow the instructions in LinuxOtherOSSupport5_0_1.htm for installing the replacement libs. 12) Do *not* (stress *not*) install the new substitute_header files... only the new libs. This differs from the instructions for SuSE or Caldera. All done. As far as I can tell, this works great. Cheers, Doug -- Dr. Douglas Eck, http://www.idsia.ch/~doug Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) Neural Networks, Rhythm Perception and Production, Dynamical Systems
