gfortran compiles find on powerpc systems -- not on mactel systems. until a few weeks ago, people with mactel systems were under nondisclosure and could not post the info on any mailing lists.
On Jan 30, 2006, at 07:04 , Paul Roebuck wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote: >> >>> I continue to hear Apple's branch has broken gfortran, though never >>> hear specifically what is broken about it. >> >> It doesn't compile - that's what's broken :). My impression is that >> there is quite a bunch of new pieces and changes in the C back-end >> code that were shared by the gfortran, but the fortran part was not >> updated correspondingly. I tried to patch some of the holes, but >> didn't get very far. Maybe if someone has the spare time to trace all >> the changes individually in both the FSF and Apple branch could put >> it together... >> >>> I don't mind filing a bug report with them too >> >> The problem is Apple doesn't support gfortran and never did. The >> ability to compile gfortran from the Apple branch was just incidental >> and required some tweaking as well (basically manually enabling f95 >> in the build script and patching together fat gfortran libraries), >> but it was harmless. When you ask them, they say "use f2c" (but R >> doesn't support that). > > I guess what I find odd about [gfortran not compiling] is > that no one seems to mention that in the Apple mailing > list over the last couple months. > > <http://lists.apple.com/archives/fortran-dev/2006/Jan/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > === Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
