Building Molpro for Alpha Linux

[Peter Knowles]

I have the impression that you can just forget about the -i8 flag. The
key thing is that type 'long' in C is actually compiled as 8
bytes. You should perhaps check this:
int main(){ printf("%d\n",(int)sizeof(long)); }

Peter

At Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:34:37 +0200,
David Smith wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Nick Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > The GNU c compiler should be sufficient, you don't need the Compaq c comiler.
> > If you change the CC line in CONFIG to
> > CC="gcc -i8"
> > then it should work.
> > Nick Wilson
> > 
> 
> I should have mentioned that I already tried this. I get an error from
> the preprocessor:
> 
> cpp0: Invalid option -i8
> 
> This was why I tried to switch to the compaq compiler.
> 
> I wasn't sure if I could run it (gcc) without -i8 and still be free from
> the restrictions associated with i4 (active orbitals, file size ...).
> 
> My thinking was that as most of the important stuff is in Fortran I
> could probably get away with it.
> 
> Is this correct ?
>  
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