problems with prerequisites

[arielzn]

I'm trying to install the ifort compiler on a debian system with a custom kernel 2.6.27.8 .
when the install.sh script checks the prerequisites it founds 3 problems:
1- Detected operating system is not supported.
2- System glibc or kernel version not supported or not detectable.
3- Binutils version not supported or not detectable.

the linux distro is Debian Lenny, so i guess the supported Debian 4.0 corresponds to Etch.

But the installed glibc and binutils versions are the latest in the lenny repositories, wich are 2.7 and 2.18.1 respectively. both greater than the supportted ones.

how should i solve this problems, it can be an issue with the custom kernel running?
should i ignore this problems and install ifort anyway?

thanks

[rreis]

I've got ifort 11 installed in several debian machines and that message always shows up because debian isn't a supported distro. I think you can ignore it and proceed. If you find any problem running ifort after post the error message. Surely it will be just a question of making an apt-get install something ;)

[TimP]

Quoting - rreis

I've got ifort 11 installed in several debian machines and that message always shows up because debian isn't a supported distro. I think you can ignore it and proceed. If you find any problem running ifort after post the error message. Surely it will be just a question of making an apt-get install something ;)

As Ricardo says, the report of undetectable binutils is common to all unsupported distros. It's been agreed as an installer bug. If you have a working g++ matching the 32/64-bitness of your choice visible (as root, if doing a root install), it should be OK to proceed.
On 64-bit installations, if the organization of 32- and 64-bit libraries doesn't conform to LSB, and the distro isn't recognized as Ubuntu style, you are likely to have trouble.
For idb, you should have jre 1.6 visible and matching the 32 or 64-bitness of your OS, not necessarily the bitness of the compiler. There is a small bug in the documentation about jre version requirement, for which I got an answer "will not fix." It is working for me with both jre 1.5 and 1.6 installed, but I had to clear out older versions.
Another problem has been occurring lately: an unexplained prerequisite for idb installation is that /usr/bin/java must be a symlink to the correct Sun java jre installation, not a symlink into the gnu java (gcj) installation, as it is on recent linux distros when gcj is installed. So, it is necessary to remove that symlink (preferably before installing the Sun jre).
To sum up, idb requires 2 undocumented symlinks: "java" must be a symlink to the Sun jre, which must be the linux x86_64 version if you have 64-bit linux, and "mozilla" should start a browser (Firefox) to enable the gui help button. The help files are in the idb/gui/common/com.intel.debugger.help_1.0.0/doc.zip (in the idb installation), and are unpacked on the fly when the browser is started from the help button.
The 64-bit ifort version prior to 11.0/074 had the wrong OpenMP debug library, so you should be using a current version.

[roddur]

As others said, i always face this problem with my OS(FC) and as intel (for obvious reason) has a phaselag with the OS, as soon as i update to a new version, it prompts this error. but i am yet to encounter any performance problem due to this.
Also, i discussed it in premium support center of intel and they also ensure that it is not supposed to cause any potential problem.