altivec compiler

[Ken Cunningham]

all the standard MacPorts compilers (gcc versions, clang versions) support the -faltivec flag.

This flag is only useful on PowerPC systems, which I would be surprised if you were targeting. Is that the system you're after? The fact that it's still in the config suggests this is a very old piece of software.

BTW, for practical purposes, only gcc versions offer useful PowerPC code generation at present. 

K



On 2018-11-23, at 7:38 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:

> Taucs is a C library of sparse linear solvers that is a dependency for calculix-ccx. Looking at its config, it assigns 
> 
> CFLAGS    = -O3 -faltivec
> LIBBLAS   = -framework vecLib
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> 1. Is altivec supported in the macports compilers group?
> 2. There is a vecLib framework in /System/Frameworks but I’m not familiar with it. Would the atlas port suffice for libBlas and libLapack?
> 
> Mark Brethen
> mark.brethen at gmail.com
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