[mpich-discuss] remove restrictive GCC check

[Jeff Hammond]

Hi Ana,

Thanks!  I created https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/pull/3667 to kick off
the CI systems...

Jeff

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:02 PM Ana Guerrero López via discuss <
discuss at mpich.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The current check in MPICH forcing to use exactly the same GCC version
> to build MPICH and the user programs is too restrictive. I got bitten
> by this and seems to be a recurrent problem, for example, see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807666
>
> The check was added many years ago by a problem with GCC3,
> so I think it could be safely removed. Please see attached patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Ana
>
> --
> Ana Guerrero Lopez
> HPC Team - SUSE Labs
>
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