diff NEWS @ 19850:81078b0e39e8

build: Enable OpenMP by default, remove experimental warning (bug #42176) * configure.ac: Enable OpenMP by default. Use AX_OPENMP macro to detect compiler flags instead of OCTAVE_CHECK_OPENMP and case statements. Delete warning message about OpenMP being experimental. * ax_openmp.m4: New macro. * acinclude.m4 (OCTAVE_CHECK_OPENMP): Delete macro definition. * m4/module.mk (EXTRA_DIST): Include m4/ax_openmp.m4 in the list. * NEWS: Mention that OpenMP is enabled by default.
author Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>
date Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:24:10 -0500
parents 511b3ae4872b
children 059a05bc398c
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--- a/NEWS	Sat Feb 21 16:37:01 2015 -0500
+++ b/NEWS	Sat Feb 21 18:24:10 2015 -0500
@@ -278,6 +278,11 @@
  ** Qt and FLTK graphics toolkit now support offscreen rendering,
     i.e., print will work when figure visibility is off.
 
+ ** Octave now has OpenMP enabled by default if the system provides a
+    working OpenMP implementation.  This allows oct-file modules to take
+    advantage of OpenMP if desired.  This can be disabled when building
+    Octave with the configure option --disable-openmp.
+
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