From e4f374df38ae0598cabc00b6dddce498c87eddb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:24:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Don't support 2.96 any more. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@8003 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/faq.html | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/faq.html b/deal.II/doc/faq.html index 0a632dfd71..4fb383739f 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/faq.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/faq.html @@ -75,9 +75,11 @@

You can't, this version of gcc simply does not work with - 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. + deal.II, or at least did not. deal.II + version 4.0 will contain fixes to allow compilation, but versions + up to and including 3.4 cannot be compiled with gcc 2.96. Furthermore, later + versions don't support this compiler any more at all, and will tell you so + during configuration.

@@ -88,8 +90,10 @@ get hold of such a system (initially, the main development of deal.II 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. Also note that we - have reports that gcc 2.96 may miscompile parts of the library, see + released version of gcc. Simply use either gcc 2.95 or 3.X. The reason we + finally decided not to support this compiler is that we + have reports that gcc 2.96 may miscompile parts of the library, see for + example this message. We have also found that some of the example programs return wrong values or go into infinite loops if compiled with this version of gcc. -- 2.39.5