On Friday 27 May 2011 11:14:38 Richard Guenther wrote:
> I know developing on the edge of what compilers support can be a PITA,
> but it's more maintainable to have checks and workarounds in terms
> of actual bugs than compiler versions.
Full ack.
> It should be relatively easy for
> you to provide a my-library-config.sh that provides the defines for
> an installed copy and the current compiler - much similar to what
> was done in pre-pkg-config times. So, teach your users to put
>
> CXXFLAGS=$(CXXFLAGS) `my-library-config.sh $CXX`
>
> in their Makefile and they will get your library configured at build time
> of the client app.
True. Right now I'm forced to do this. But I know my users... have you seen
the typical physicist developing HPC software? ;)
If at all possible, I want to have it fool-proof.
But, if I can't get any further support than that RedHat already had the need
for this macro themselves --- I guess I should end this thread here. Don't
want to waste our time any further...
Cheers,
Matthias
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Dipl.-Phys. Matthias Kretz
http://compeng.uni-frankfurt.de/?mkretz
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