Re: amber-developers: Testing Amber Tools

From: Scott Brozell <sbrozell.scripps.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 13:43:52 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 zweig.scripps.edu wrote:

> Your guess is right, GCC-3.2 is too old for gleap, actually it is the
> boost library
> which is causing the problem. You need at least gcc 3.4 to compile it.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, David A. Case wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >
> Wei can comment on the gleap problem, but your guess of "old compiler" sounds
> reasonable. gleap depends on boost, which tends to have cutting/bleeding edge
> C++ requirements.
>
> [It would be great if this is the problem: not only is it easy to fix, but I
> can use it to beat Scott over the head :-) ]

boost's demanding compiler requirements was a known issue:
several of us raised it at the gleap strategy meeting in Feb 2007.
Apparently management decided boost was worth the cost, but now
portability is back in the spotlight with the recent release,
and management is looking for a scapegoat.

Regarding my head, it is lump free.
Regarding bug 56, Im still waiting for all those buggy C++ compilers.
Management cant face that C++ is a better C.

List of boostable compilers:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit/main_overview/compilers_overview.html

Scott
Received on Wed May 07 2008 - 06:07:27 PDT
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