From: wolf Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:54:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Note gcc296 issue. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7e18f02e539031b18a373e6cc87444c800f1f383;p=dealii-svn.git Note gcc296 issue. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@6647 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/faq.html b/deal.II/doc/faq.html index 9ab39f8035..3b9587b324 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/faq.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/faq.html @@ -60,18 +60,26 @@

You can't, this version of gcc simply does not work with - deal.II. gcc 2.96 was created by RedHat from a - snapshot somewhere between 2.95 and 3.0; it contained a large number - of compiler bugs, which have partly been fixed, but too many remain - as that we were able to make the library work with this - compiler. Also note that version 2.96 is not an - officially released version of gcc. Simply use either gcc 2.95.2 or - 3.X. + deal.II, or at least did not. Post-3.4 versions of + deal.II will contain fixes for this problem, but versions + up to and including 3.4 cannot be compiled with gcc 2.96. +

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+ gcc 2.96 was created by + RedHat from a snapshot somewhere between 2.95 and 3.0; it contained a large + number of compiler bugs, which have partly been fixed, but too many remain as + that we were able to make the library work with this compiler until we could + get hold of such a system (the main development was done in Germany, which is + SuSE country, not Red Hat). Also note that version 2.96 is not an officially + released version of gcc. Simply use either gcc 2.95 or 3.X.

RedHat provides updates to gcc version 3.0 or later, and downgrades - to gcc version 2.95, all of which work with deal.II. + to gcc version 2.95, all of which work with deal.II. Red + Hat releases starting with version 8.0 will also be based on a different + compiler, so the problem does not exist there any more.