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| author | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2022-08-19 10:50:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2022-08-19 10:50:35 +0300 |
| commit | c56afe796999ee7b3e2c1d4d7cf2e52192794d8b (patch) | |
| tree | ede05784d72c804c39b0a5fd54487558dd144bd9 /INSTALL.rst | |
| parent | ab5bd90f7d232df5d5d2caf803c9d25de653056d (diff) | |
| download | numpy-c56afe796999ee7b3e2c1d4d7cf2e52192794d8b.tar.gz | |
DOC: add notes on GCC 6.5 being the minimum supported GCC version.
Given that GCC 6 is mainly kept for Ubuntu LTS and that has 6.5
when you install gcc-6 with `apt`, let's document that as the
minimum version (also that is what is tested in CI).
[ci skip]
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.rst b/INSTALL.rst index 130306d06..f136b7cfc 100644 --- a/INSTALL.rst +++ b/INSTALL.rst @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ skipped when running the test suite if no Fortran compiler is available. For building Scipy a Fortran compiler is needed though, so we include some details on Fortran compilers in the rest of this section. -On OS X and Linux, all common compilers will work. +On OS X and Linux, all common compilers will work. The minimum supported GCC +version is 6.5. For Fortran, ``gfortran`` works, ``g77`` does not. In case ``g77`` is installed then ``g77`` will be detected and used first. To explicitly select |