[pooma-dev] Re: pooma compilation problems

[Jeffrey D. Oldham]

Richard Guenther wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>Steve Nolen wrote:
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>>>i am having a problem compiling pooma on a Linux cluster.  i am using
>>>gcc_3.4.0 and it is giving a host of errors saying it is encountering
>>>multiply undefined variables.  the problem seems to be with derived
>>>templated classes being unable to see the templated member variables of
>>>their parent classes.  it can be resolved by explicitly scoping the
>>>variables to their proper base class, but this solution seems suboptimal.
>>>am i doing something incorrect or is gcc304 enforcing a stricter adherence
>>>to the standard?
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>>The latter.  I believe that the current sources for POOMA, in CVS, work
>>with GCC 3.4.x.
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>Maybe we can do another release of the POOMA library.  These problems seem
>common, and just redirecting everyone to CVS is not good.  At least maybe
>the website could point out possible problems with gcc 3.4 and icpc.
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Yes, it's probably time to bump up the minor version numbers.  Let's 
ensure all the outstanding patches are resolved.  Then we'll test the 
various configurations before making a release.

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Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham at codesourcery.com