Good information guys! Our Mac user base is large so we'd have to consider the cost of maintaining fink packages on end-user machines... so we'd probably rather not go that route but it's good to know somebody is doing that. If I'm not mistaken, the "compile" time of Apple's branch of the GNU compilers greatly exceeds the standard GNU distribution which also makes us lean a bit more on sticking with the out of the box compilers. I think for now, our group will wait to see what OS X 10.7 offers in the way of compilers before making the decision to move to some other source.
On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Paul T. Bauman wrote: > On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Boyce Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/16/11 2:00 PM, Derek Gaston wrote: >>> >>> You have to remember that we use Macs.... >>> >>> That compiler is the Apple one... switching away from it is essentially >>> impossible (I don't know of anyone, anywhere that has ever been able to get >>> Fortrran and C++ to link together on OSX using non Apple GCC). The Intel >>> compilers used to be an option... but they have their own issues (like not >>> updating them properly for new versions of XCode, etc.). >> >> I must be missing something here, but I've never had any trouble using >> Fink's gcc/g++/gfortran on OS X 10.5. I've also never done any timings >> to see if the performance is any good... > > I'm not sure about performance either, but I've never had trouble either > using my self built compilers. Granted, the code I was doing this on is > probably much simpler, but I don't see any fundamental difficulty. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Libmesh-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
