[Dune-devel] Compiler requirements

[Steffen Müthing]

Hi Christoph,

> Am 19.09.2017 um 21:13 schrieb Christoph Grüninger <foss at grueninger.de>:
> 
> Hi,
> having GCC 5.1 and CMake 3.1 seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Anything beyond that might be too progressive. Let's have an official
> vote. I like to hear the opinion of Markus and Robert. Further, we
> should ask our users. What kind of Red Hat is Alf and the OPM project
> currently using?

Red Hat is really not a problem either way:
RHEL  7 is on GCC 4.8, that ship sailed long ago ;-)

On the other hand. you can get an officially supported GCC 5.3 through RHSCL if you
want. And you can get CMake 3.6.3 from the EPEL repository.

Steffen

> 
> Bye
> Christoph
> 
> Am 19.09.2017 um 11:28 schrieb Steffen Müthing:
>> If we stick to the idea of having Ubuntu LTS as a baseline, CMake 3.5 would be the
>> obvious version.
>> 
>> And I also like the idea of enabling C++17 by default if available.
>> 
>> Steffen
>> 
>>> Am 19.09.2017 um 11:22 schrieb Andreas Dedner <a.s.dedner at warwick.ac.uk>:
>>> 
>>> Fine with me (including Matrin's suggestion for CMake 3.1)
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> On 19/09/17 09:28, Oliver Sander wrote:
>>>>> at the last developer meeting we settled on GCC 4.9 for DUNE 2.5, mostly for compatibility
>>>>> with Debian Jessie. We also said that after the release of Stretch, we’d move to GCC 5 as
>>>>> minimum compiler, which gives us full C++14 support.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We should then also raise the minimum required C++ level to -std=c++14.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are there any objections?
>>>> 
>>>> No objections from my side.
>>>> 
>>>> Oliver
>>>> 
>>>> 
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