On 12/04/2013 11:40 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> 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
