On 30 April 2012 16:23, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Essentially by maintaining a list of gcc versions / architectures that work > well enough with reduced optimizations, and that are hopelessly broken. This > can just be some shell script that shitlists specific compilers...
A problem with that approach is that a compiler can be broken on one platform, or verions of linux, but ok on another. A better approach is probaby the one taken by autoconf - test the compiler. If you know a compiler computes 1+1=3, then write a test for that. Autoconf is good for this. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org