operating system. It should therefore be rather simple to port it
to other systems, at least with the compilers stated above. See <a
href="http:porting.html">here</a>, if your system is not on this
- list. Note that we have supported egcs 1.1.x in previous releases
- of the library (up to <acronym>deal.II</acronym> 3.0), but due to
- some missing feature in the support of Standard C++, we now only
- support later versions of gcc.
+ list.
</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li> <p>
A fairly complete C++ compiler. We use
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org" target="_top">egcs1.1.2 and
- gcc2.95</a> but other compilers might work as well. egcs1.0
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org" target="_top">gcc2.95</a> but
+ other compilers might work as well. egcs1.x
and older gcc versions will not work, however. Also, Sun
Workshop C++ 5.0 will not work since it does not support
template member functions, and IBM C Set++ 3.0 will not
work since they only have non-ISO header file names (with
appended .h; probably, version 3.0 is not the most recent
- one, but we don't have access to newer ones).
+ one, but we don't have access to newer ones).
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that we have supported egcs 1.1.x in previous releases
+ of the library (up to <acronym>deal.II</acronym> 3.0), but
+ due to some missing feature in the support of Standard C++,
+ we now only support later versions of gcc for releases of
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> after version 3.0.x.
</p>
<p>