On 2016-08-25 15:32-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > >> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: >> >> @Jim: You stated recently that you had some trouble with getting the >> Fortran parts of PLplot to work on Mac OS X. If that is still the >> case, the report tarball generated by the above script invocatin will >> likely give me everything I need to fix that issue. >> > > The issue is that MacPorts had installed gfortran as gfortran-mp-49 and > gfortran-mp-5. There was no gfortran executable. > > I don't know if that is normal or an artifact of having two different > versions installed. The fix was simple--I set FC=/opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-5 > > We could fix the cmake configuration to try different names or just document > it in the wiki.
My feeling is CMake itself and the PLplot build system should not be expected to support idiosyncratic platform names for the Fortran (or any other) compiler in a seamless manner. So I suggest you just document the use of the FC environment variable. By the way, Linux distributions typically handle multiple versions of any tool by an extremely convenient update-alternatives script (which, for example, would symbolically link gfortran to the version preferred by the user). Back in 2008, this possibility was discussed for MacPorts (see <https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-May/005172.html>), but if anyone followed through with implementing such a script for MacPorts, I could not find that with a quick google search. If you confirm there is currently no update-alternatives script or equivalent on MacPorts, perhaps a good bug report from you about that situation might motivate the MacPorts developers to simply adapt (if adaptation is necessary at all) an existing update-alternatives script from one of the Linux distros. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
