Simfactory: intel optionlists with rdynamic option

[Bruno Mundim]

Hi,

While reviewing some options in my config file I noticed that the -rdynamic gcc option for the linker is applied also to the intel compiler option lists in symfactory. However there seems to have no such an option when using icc or icpc. Wouldn't be better then to pass this option as --export-dynamic directly to the linker ld instead? Maybe as follows:

LDFLAGS = -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/whatever

instead of

LDFLAGS = -rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/whatever

Thanks, Bruno.

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[Frank Löffler]

The intel compilers accept -rdynamic, and although not easy to find in their documentation, it is mentioned at least in one place: https://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/doclib/iss/2013/compiler/cpp-lin/

Now, this is not saying that we should not change this. The Intel compiler probably only accepts it for compatibility reasons. I assume you tried to change it and it worked for you?

[Frank Löffler]

Removing release milestone, because this might not be an issue after all. Consider closing ticket if no one is interested.

[Roland Haas]

It have been 5 years since the ticket was last updated and no failures because of using -rdynamic in option lists using Intel compilers have been reported, so likely the compiler (wrapper) supports the option to be backwards compatible.

I will close this ticket.