Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Willie Wong schrieb:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > 
>> > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the
>> > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler?
>> 
>> afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions. 
>> BUT! if you add "icc" to your USEflags, portage will compile things
>> with icc whenever the compile is known not to break. (=
>> 
> 
> scratch that. You also need to set the $CC yourself plus a lot of
> hocuspocus. Check 
>   http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ICC_and_Portage&e=912

Hey, nice howto! I'll try to setup an icc system then.

Too bad, that some of the large packages like xorg don't
compile with icc :(

Cheers,

Alexander Skwar
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