[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] RFC: Compiler support, removing hacks for old compilers

Thu Mar 19 16:01:05 EDT 2015

FWIW, ParaView has a superbuild nightly binaries machine that runs debian 4
(gcc 4.1.2).  We may be updating to a more recent debian soon though.

Shawn

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:47 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> This from $VTKSRC/Utilities/Maintainance/vtk_submitter_summary.py run a
> while back.
>
> These are maybe.
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;/usr/bin/c++;1.71428571429;['karego-at.kitware
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> 'kamino.kitware Mac10.7.5-gcc-release-x86_64-nightly_master',
> 'kargad.kitware MacLion-Continuous', 'karego-at.kitware Ubuntu-Continuous',
> 'sonne.domibel.de Debian_Testing_gcc-4.8.2_c++11', 'dejagore.kitware
> Ubuntu-13.10-x86_64-Ninja-Clang3.4-Accel', 'kargad.kitware
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> 'dashlin1.kitware Ubuntu-master', 'karego-at.kitware Ubuntu-Coverage',
> 'kamino.kitware Mac10.7.5-gcc-release-x86_64-nightly_release',
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> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;/usr/bin/c++.exe;10.0;['dash14.kitware Win32-cygwin344']
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++;1.0;['RogueResearch6
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> Fedora19-gcc4.8.2-ATI-RadeonHD-7870']
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> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;/usr/lib/ccache/bin/c++;2.0;['londinium.kitware
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> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;/usr/lib64/ccache/c++;10.75;['bubbles.hooperlab
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> Fedora-19-MesaDevel_DRI-x86_64', 'bubbles.hooperlab
> Fedora-19-Mesa-10.0.1_DRI-x86_64', 'bubbles.hooperlab
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> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;C:/MinGW/bin/g++.exe;1.0;['amber12.kitware
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>
> These are no.
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> 'amber10.kitware VTK-REL-Win64-VS10']
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio
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> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
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>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for these comments.
>>
>> There is only one hack for gcc 4.0, I'll go ahead and yank it too.
>>
>> Anyone know if there is a dashboard running gcc 4.1?  (My oldest
>> buildbot, Rogue3, is running gcc 4.2, specifically Apple's fork.)
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:46:04 +0000, Scott, W Alan said:
>>
>> >Ditto for us.  4.1.2 is the oldest we seem to have.
>> >
>> >Alan
>> >
>> >From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf
>> >Of Chuck Atkins
>> >Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:13 PM
>> >To: Sean McBride
>> >Cc: VTK Developers; vtkusers at vtk.org
>> >Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [vtk-developers] RFC: Compiler support, removing
>> >hacks for old compilers
>> >
>> >I'd be interested to know from the community what are the oldest
>> >compilers you care about?  Anyone out there using a compiler older than
>> >5 years or so?
>> >
>> > I'd say for gcc, 4.1.x is likely the oldest you'd need to bother with.
>> >That's the system compiler for RHEL5 and SLES10, both of which are EOL'd
>> >but still actively deployed.  That being said, chances are pretty high
>> >that even on those systems, you'd have a newer compiler available via
>> >system packages.  RHEL5.5 and up has /usr/bin/gcc44 and SLES 10 has /usr/
>> >bin/gcc-4.3, both available as system packages and an alternative to the
>> >older /usr/bin/gcc used to compiler their respective kernels.
>>
>>
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