[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-07-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/31/2018 4:21 PM, invalid wrote:
>> The problem is you don't have any knowledge of the environment
>> you're lecturing about.
>
> Compilers are not or at least do not need to be environment
> specific. They are only source language and target ISA specific.
>

I think invalid may have been talking about the cultural environment,
not the technical environment in this case.

However, while I agree with you in general when it comes to the technical
environment, you should also look at all the latest version required
stuff that keeps getting inserted into LLVM.

A couple of years ago, when I tried building the current LLVM version
at the time on Scientific Linux 5.x, I couldn't even get parts of the
LLVM ecosystem to build on SL 5.x because, on Linux, it required Linux
features not in SL 5.x.

Simon.

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