[gmx-users] Installation of gromacs on a cluster with gcc version 4.1.2

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:03:41 +0530 (IST)
rashmi at chem.iitb.ac.in wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I want to install Gromacs 4.5.1 version on a cluster system (high
> performance computing facility) in our institute. I don't have access
> to root and thus, I have to install gromacs in my home directory.
> 
> The problem is that, the cluster has CentOS 5.4 as the operating
> system and the gcc version is 4.1.2.
> 
> Gromacs site says that gcc 4.1.x and above are broken compilers and
> gromacs should not be compiled using them.

I haven't had any problems with Gromacs in CentOS 5 compiled with the
system compiler. The people at Red Hat have probably fixed all the bugs
that caused the problems a long time ago.

Another possibility is to ask the admin to install the 4.4 version of
GCC, which is readily available in the distribution.
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