Quoting Gabor Kovesdan <ga...@freebsd.org> (from Wed, 18 Aug 2010
19:56:01 +0200):
Em 2010.08.18. 19:37, Rui Paulo escreveu:
On 18 Aug 2010, at 18:18, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Rui Paulo<rpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok
with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places.
The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to
fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest
in ICC is low.
If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-)
Later versions of icc are more gcc compliant aren't they? If so,
wouldn't this also be a non-issue to remove the bits, or are there
still some incompatibilities between gcc and icc that are worth
noting?
I really don't know how compatible is the latest icc because no one
ever updated the ports version. This is actually a hint that no one
really uses this anymore.
IIRC, apart from the low interest, the problem was that because of
ICC's license using ICC to test this mk stuff requires a commercial
license because somehow it is considered a derivative work. It has
If we wanted to ship binaries, we would have to compile them with the
commercial license.
also prevented us from providing better support. In 2006, I wanted
to do some progress as part of my SoC project because that time
there was more interest. Alexander (CC'd) may comment on this. I
think he has a license for FreeBSD work but he is not allowed to
give it out to a third party.
At some point I got a license (IIRC for 2-users) which could have been
installed in the cluster, but this would have meant to install a
license server somewhere. The license was also the only commercial
license I had which would have allowed to run the amd64... ehrm...
em64t version of icc. This was for icc 9.x and I have some doubts this
license will work with icc 11.x.
If someone would get icc 11.x up and runnig as a port (similar to what
we have for outdated icc version in the ports collection), I would
have a look if my contact at Intel is still working there in a
position which allows him to get a commercial license for us.
Bye,
Alexander.
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