On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:17 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > It's probably non-trivial to compile stuff with the Intel compiler.
I tried to compile the kernel once with the Intel compiler (not sure where I got it, maybe a temporary free download, or maybe from some other source, I forget). I don't think I ever got it to build correctly. I didn't try too hard, only for maybe 3-4 hours. And then I gave up. > Linux kernel is probably full of #pragmas and what-not which are > GCC-specific. But this is one reason why commercial OS often show > better performance than Linux on the same hardware. hehehe, at the time I was wondering whether it would be possible to build gentoo using the intel C compiler. I think maybe I saw an article about that and decided to try it. I didn't even get past the compiling a kernel stage though (on Mandriva it probably was), I was taking baby steps, working on an already working linux instead of actually trying to compile everything from scratch, as with gentoo :-) tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
