[daip] Re: Which gcc for AIPS under Fedora Core 4?

[Eric Greisen]

William Junor writes:

 >     I want to alert you to a problem with AIPS installations under
 >     Fedora Core 4 (FC4).  I recently installed FC4 on my machine at
 >     home and took the opportunity to freshen my version of AIPS
 >     (31DEC05).  The current guidance on gcc is to use gcc-2.95.3 since
 >     the 3.x versions don't work well.

            We use 3.2.3 for everything now.  It should compile on
your system.  The 3.3.x do not work.

 > 
 >     However, gcc-2.95.3 can't be compiled under FC4 --- file
 >     lowlevellock.h at least is missing.  (I think this is supposed to
 >     reside in /usr/include/bits .)
 > 
 >     I tried building AIPS using the supplied version of gcc --- FC4
 >     uses gcc-4.0.0.  My initial impression is that gcc-4.0.0 isn't
 >     working well --- TVFLG is really rather sluggish for instance.
 >     I'll investigate some more.

           I'm suprised you got that far - 4.0 does not work.

Eric Greisen

 > 
 >     I don't know what the fix for compilation of gcc-2.95.3 is yet.  I
 >     looked on the web briefly from home yesterday but did not see a
 >     ready solution.
 > 
 >                                        Bill
 > 
 > 
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