Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:40:07 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C/C++ compiler Message-ID: <20011111004007.A391@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <200111101905.fAAJ5KM13449@peedub.muc.de>; from garyj@jennejohn.org on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:05:15PM %2B0100 References: <20011110164731.A9601@lpt.ens.fr> <200111101905.fAAJ5KM13449@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn said on Nov 10, 2001 at 20:05:15: > 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). I think so too. I'll work on it unless someone more expert than me is interested. > 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. Sure, it's of no use there. But it probably is of use to numbercrunchers -- many scientists run FreeBSD, though many more run linux (they were probably Intel's target audience anyway). I don't think fortran is used by anyone outside this community, either.... - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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