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

[Jack Poulson]

On 12/04/2013 11:40 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> I guess our systems people or Linux package developers are not good at keeping up to date.
> 
> Well, real people use old compilers.  Elemental requires cutting-edge
> compilers, so we just need to remember to only attempt to build it on
> machines with the latest compilers.  I personally see no reason to ever
> use old compilers, but some don't think that way.  Apple shipped gcc-4.2
> for nearly six years after it was released and RedHat supports systems
> for longer than that.  Microsoft quit maintaining their C compiler in
> the 1990s, but still ships it.
> 

Version 0.81 of Elemental [1] should work with compilers that are
several years old. I don't see what's wrong with downloading an older
version of the library if only older compilers are available.

Jack

[1] http://libelemental.org/releases/0.81/index.html