[ofa-general] Compiling source using Intel Compiler

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 04 September 2008, Christopher Tanner wrote:
> > But why you cannot use gcc for building OFED packages?
>
> Our codes have a lot of Fortran 77 in them and gfortran hasn't been  
> compiling those codes very well. Since we're using ifort for Fortran  
> compiling, I figured we ought to use icc (C) and icpc (C++) to use a  
> consistent compiler package. I don't know if programs partially  
> compiled in gcc and ifort will work very well...

This is the case for a lot of users and sites (if not most HPC sites). There 
is no need what-so-ever to compile the IB-stack with icc. Just build in the 
recommended way and compile your applications with icc/ifort.

/Peter