[petsc-dev] clang is having some problems with elemental

[Barry Smith]

  Jack,

   Thanks, Satish can fix that machine to use a modern clang and if the problem persists we will let you know.

   Barry

I guess our systems people or Linux package developers are not good at keeping up to date.

On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Jack Poulson <jpoulson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> On 12/04/2013 10:53 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> 
>> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2013/12/04/configure_next_arch-linux-pkgs-dbg-ftn-interfaces_crank.log
>> 
> 
> According to the log file, Clang 3.0 is being used, which is now more
> than two years behind (the release was Dec. 1, 2011).
> 
> The large litany of warnings about hiding virtual functions is known to
> be a bug in Clang 3.0 and was reported almost two years ago:
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmbugs/2011-December/021231.html
> 
> With that said, I haven't tried compiling Elemental against the most
> recent versions of Clang and will do so soon.
> 
> Jack