* Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-28 08:40]: > Does this imply that all FORTRAN-using packages will need to move from > g77-3.4 to gfortran-4.2 in the near future? To my knowledge there has > been no mass rebuild of FORTRAN packages with gfortran yet to see how > smoothly this will work out... > > As I understand it the challenges involved in a mass switch to gfortran > are two-fold. First, gfortran and g77 by default produce code with > different ABIs (at least for functions that return REAL or COMPLEX; > possibly also in other cases?) so probably a transition plan for > libraries, similar to the C++ ABI change transitions, will be needed. > > Second, another complicating factor is that since gfortran is not going > to provide an f77 or g77 symlink (I understand this is because it is not > a complete standards-compliant implementation of a FORTRAN 77 compiler), > all the build infrastructures of FORTRAN packages will need to be > altered so that they call gfortran instead of f77 / g77 / $(FC) / $(F77).
CCing Matthias who's the right person to answer this. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]