[dune-pdelab] Minimum compiler support for building the PDELab

[Bård Skaflestad]

On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 16:33 +0200, Christian Engwer wrote:
> Hi Bard,
> 
> thanks for the hint. Currently we still try to support 4.4, but
> sometime such constructions find their way in...

Cool.  Now that I have everything set up, I may occasionally send other
reports if something breaks the build of -howto.  Will that be okay?

> 
> Christian
> 
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 04:12:12PM +0200, Bård Skaflestad wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I've been trying (and failing) to build the PDELab-howto using GCC 4.4
> > over the past couple of weeks.  With Markus's latest changes to the
> > howto (commit e741a9d) I got most of the way there, but still not quite.
> > 
> > If I apply the hack outlined below (clearly not production ready), I
> > *am* able to build the -howto using GCC 4.4 with the following external
> > software packages
> 
> it is not a hack, but the backwards compatible solution.

Well, the hack I was talking about was the unconditional "#if 0" rather
than some more adaptive "#if HAVE_RANGE_BASED_FORLOOP" check, but I'll
leave it up to you guys to decide how you want to approach this.

Thanks a lot, anyway, for the information!


Bård