Removal of ICC (intel compiler) bits from mk

Garrett Cooper gcooper at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 18 17:45:49 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places.
> The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest in ICC is low.
> If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-)

    Later versions of icc are more gcc compliant aren't they? If so,
wouldn't this also be a non-issue to remove the bits, or are there
still some incompatibilities between gcc and icc that are worth
noting?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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