Re: [AMBER-Developers] Builds of AMBER 12 with gcc 4.1.2 failing

From: Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:02:43 -0400

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:58:29PM -0400, case wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, Ross Walker wrote:
> >
> > There seem to be issues compiling AMBER 12 on Redhat 5 which has gcc 4.1.2.
>
> Out of curiosity, where are these RedHat 5 machines? And how is it that
> an ordinary user can't install a more recent version of gcc? [Version 4.1.2
> is more than 5 years old...]

They Live lurking among us:
Mar 16 10:37:52pm casegroup.rutgers.edu 858$ ~ gcc -v
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)

Seriously, these machines are everywhere and although workarounds exist,
it is better to continue supporting these old compilers.
Some people work on machines where getting something
"fixed" can really spiral.

> The "problem" is not with gcc (which has been stable for many years), but with
> gfortran at the 4.1 level, which was very new at that time.
>
> Maybe users running RedHat 5 could just install a virtual machine and put
> Ubunutu on it :-)

> If not, sounds like Tyler is on this, and the -norism option (or having
> configure automatically set it when it finds 4.1.2) will work again soon.

It looks like this worked a while ago:
# Amber configuration file, created with: ./configure -norism gnu
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
 2544 -rwxr-xr-x 1 scott 2597745 Jan 10 11:48 pmemd

scott


Machine, in its indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
bastardized from
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Revolt of the Angels


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