For those running Dovecot on Solaris, what are your positive/negative experiences with building the software with CC vs. GCC? We are currently letting ./configure find our gcc and build with it, but wondered if anyone has any experience with Sun CC (does it even compile, for example). -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs at umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:06:26 -0600 Steven F Siirila <sfs at tc.umn.edu> wrote:> For those running Dovecot on Solaris, what are your positive/negative > experiences with building the software with CC vs. GCC? We are > currently letting ./configure find our gcc and build with it, but > wondered if anyone has any experience with Sun CC (does it even > compile, for example).Yes, dovecot compiles just fine with Sun CC. Alex --
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:06:26PM -0600, Steven F Siirila wrote:> For those running Dovecot on Solaris, what are your positive/negative > experiences with building the software with CC vs. GCC? We are currently > letting ./configure find our gcc and build with it, but wondered if anyone > has any experience with Sun CC (does it even compile, for example).I've successfully compiled Dovecot with GCC, but I'm currently using Sun Studio 11 / Sun C 5.8, and it works well. I'm using Solaris on SPARC, and presumably, Sun's compiler does a better job optimizing code for the SPARC, but that *is* just a presumption (I haven't performed any comparison benchmarks). Glenn -- Glenn Leavell <glenn at usg.edu> Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
> For those running Dovecot on Solaris, what are your positive/negative > experiences with building the software with CC vs. GCC? We are currently > letting ./configure find our gcc and build with it, but wondered if anyone > has any experience with Sun CC (does it even compile, for example).I once used StudioCC to compile dovecot to see if the problem I had was a compiler bug, but in general, I use gcc since a lot of software is tested against it. I don't use Studio unless performance is critical.>From what I know, IMAP performance is basically disk-memory bounded, so itmight not be worth sweating over: use whatever gives you the least grief. Joseph Tam <tam at math.ubc.ca>
We are running Dovecot compiled with gcc, it does compile with Sun's cc - even with 64bits (-xarch=v9) but I dont think we would accomplish anything running with 64bit code? We prefer gcc as dependent libraries like openssl compiles best with the commonly used gcc If there should be any gain running the 64bits-binary, I would like to know. We have been running rc15 for more than 2 days now, not experienceing any problems seen on previous release-candidates. I think it's a go for 1.0 Lots of thanks to the fine work of Timo! Hans Morten Kind Univ of Bergen 10k+ users daily