[plt-scheme] Advice request: compiling mzscheme with icc?

That's very encouraging.

What are the particulars; i.e., is setting CC=icc, and having icc specific
libraries in the environment variables icc looks for by default
sufficient, or do I need to pass these along as options to configure as 
well?
I can put icc specific flags in CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and indicate the libraries
in LDFLAGS, according to configure --help.  But I need to add the icc 
specific
options `-parallel -xT', and suppress any -mcpu, -mtune or -march options
that configure might otherwise deduce from
MACHTYPE=powerpc-apple-darwin8.0 and HOSTTYPE=powerpc, which are
set by the OS, and which cause gcc to inevitably select for the lowest 
common
denominator; e.g. i386. 

I'm not sure why Apple declares the HOSTTYPE to be powerpc, when
it is in fact, an Intel Mac.  Despite this, configure always figures it 
out, and
chooses the architecture as i386, but it never does better; i.e., 
recognizing
that the machine has the full compliment of MMX and SSE1 - SSE3
instruction sets.  In icc, all I need do is select -O2 -xT -parallel, 
and that
seems to give the best results.  However, if I set CFLAGS='-O2 -xT 
-parallel',
I'm worried that I'm going to override important Scheme options, like
-fomit-frame-pointer and such.  Will configure add necessary additional
arguments in addition to CFLAGS?  Also, I see how to disable or enable a
features, in configure --help, but I'm not sure how I keep it from using
incompatible CPU options, unless it only uses CFLAGS, and then I'm back
in the same boat, trying to figure out if I need to add other flags, like
-fomit-frame-pointer.

Maybe I'm making too much of this, but obviously I'm a bit confused.

Clarification would be helpful.

Thanks,

--kyle




Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:49:49 +0000 (UTC), Kyle Smith wrote:
>   
>> I'm wondering if anyone has attempted a compile of mzscheme
>> with Intel's icc compiler?  If so, I'd love to find out if there were
>> any rocks along the way to avoid.
>>     
>
> It worked fine the last time I tried. I don't remember whether I tried
> to build 3m at the time, though.
>
> Matthew
>
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20070806/591c00ac/attachment.html>