I keep seeing discussions and threads in various places where people think, suggest, or believe that Clear Linux OS uses the Intel C Compiler (icc
)!
That is incorrect.
Clear Linux OS uses gcc
and llvm
.
- We do not provide
icc
as a package. It is not Open Source and does not meet our package inclusion guidelines. We’ve been asked to include it, though. - We do not compile packages with
icc
. All our binaries are compiled either withgcc
orclang
.
When we find out that clang
does a better job at compiling a package than our default compiler (gcc
) then we will change the compiler for that package and future compiles to clang
. autospec
makes this easy for us.