On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:13 +0530, rashmi_c...@iitb.ac.in wrote: > Dear gmxusers, > > The warning on the GROMACS download page says : > > WARNING: do not use the gcc 4.1.x set of compilers. They are broken. These > compilers come with recent Linux distrubutions like Fedora 5/6 etc. > > > So I installed CentOS 4.3 with gcc 3.4.5 and Fedora 10 with gcc 4.3.2 on > two different machines with same configuration( quad core dual xeon > machine clock 2 GHz). In both the machines Gromacs-4.0.4 was installed and > tetsed using corresponding gmxtest set. Many tests failed as following: > > 16 out of 63 kernel tests FAILED > pdb2gmx tests PASSED > > > But when the same tests were performed on CentOS 5.0 with "gcc 4.1.2" (so > called "broken compiler"), all tests passed except one.
You're talking of CentOS 4.3 and 5.0, both are obsolete: you should update to 4.7 and 5.3, respectively. > Are gcc 4.1.x series of compilers still broken? because the message on > gromacs download page is quite old. RedHat has backported a lot of fixes into their gcc, and thus the CentOS version works. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Jussi Lehtola, FM, Tohtorikoulutettava Fysiikan laitos, Helsingin Yliopisto jussi.leht...@helsinki.fi, p. 191 50632 ------------------------------------------------------ Mr. Jussi Lehtola, M. Sc., Doctoral Student Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland jussi.leht...@helsinki.fi ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php
