I wrote: > Prompted by a couple emails [1] to the ROOT devel list, I'm curious as > to why no package in Sid seems to provide a libgfortran.so symlink > [without the soversion] nor libgfortranbegin.a directly in /usr/lib. > This makes it difficult to link a program with the main routine written > in FORTRAN using g++ or gcc as the driver for ld. Currently one needs > to add -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2 to the linking command before > supplying -lgfortran -lgfortranbegin . > > [1] I'll supply a link to the thread when it becomes available on the > web archive of roottalk.
And here are the promised links to the relevant threads: http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk07/1147.html http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk07/1150.html In the meantime, ROOT upstream has decided in svn trunk [2] to utilize gfortran -print-file-name=libgfortran.so gfortran -print-file-name=libgfortranbegin.a to get the paths to gfortran libraries, which I've verified should do The Right Thing (TM) on a Sid system. So this bug is now more academic (at least from the point of view of ROOT) than a real problem -- feel free to close if you wish, or not. [2] http://root.cern.ch/viewcvs/trunk/config/Makefile.linux?r1=20172&r2=20658 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]