Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:05:15 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C/C++ compiler Message-ID: <200111101905.fAAJ5KM13449@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20011110164731.A9601@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20011110164731.A9601@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Saturday 10 November 2001 16:47, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > If not, is it worth making a port of this, with warning > messages that it can be used for compiling but not for > linking? I can have a shot at it. Or is this altogether too > kludgy to bother about? > I think it would be worth making a port out of this with a shell script to replace the Intel linker with an invocation of gcc (if that's possible). In a recent article in a German PC magazine it was pointed out that the Intel compiler can not be used on much of the existing open-source (like mozilla or GNOME), which greatly limits its utility. There's no way that one could make the world or a kernel with it. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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