[3694] in Release_7.7_team
new Sun compilers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Jan 14 15:07:32 2003
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:07:22 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed the latest set of Sun compilers (C, C++, f77/f90/f95) from
the Forte Compiler Collection 7 release. To use them now, do:
add -f sunsoft_v7
followed by the usual compiler invocation (cc myfile.c, CC myfile.C etc.).
Sun isn't supplying the Visu and Workshop integrated development environments
in this release, but there are new performance libraries (optimised for
high-speeed numeric computations) which are installed. Documentation starts
from https://web.mit.edu/sunsoft_v7/www/index.html.
As before, default linking has been set to static by moving dynamic libraries
out of their usual location. See file /mit/sunsoft_v7/README.dynamic_linking
for instructions on how to link dynamically. This is most likely to affect
FORTRAN code, and possibly C++ code.
The installation notes say that a minimum of 256 meg of memory is
required, although I was able to compile some small test examples on a
machine with 128 meg. They also refer to about 4 required Solaris patches
that currently aren't installed, although they should be in an Athena patch
release due out next week. The examples I tried seemed to work even without
the patches.
I'm not planning to make these the Athena default until at least next Summer.
Alex
