On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:53:06PM -0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> holst schrieb:
>> Public bug reported:
>> 
>> The gfortran-4.3 package in Ubuntu 8.10 is *BROKEN*
>> 
>> Fundamental things like string handling does not work. It is very
>> important that this package is upgraded to the latest stable 4.3
>> release. This bug makes Ubuntu a less attractive platform for scientific
>> computing; an important and growing field in the Linux world.
> 
> - this is the latest stable 4.3 release.

You are correct. 4.3.3 is still in 'pre-release'.

> - it's trim which shows a bug

The bug report seems to indicate that string assignment itself, or the
print statement is broken (too?).

> - gfortran-4.3 is not broken (and please avoid capital wording)

I was trying to catch some attention to what I thought was a really
serious issue! (And UPPER CASE comes natural to a FORTRAN coder :))

Further info on the errand:

I tried to run the program via gdb and I saw that libgfortran contained
paths to /home/fx/.../trunk/gfortran - that is, not stable??
This seemed just too strange to be true. And of course it was not true:
/usr/bin/gfortran was picking up libgfortran from my gfortran 4.4
installation under /opt/irun/lib. After removing gfortran 4.4 from
/etc/ldconfig.so and re-running ldconfig the test program runs just
fine.

This errand can be closed. Nothing remains a Ubuntu-specific problem.

-- 
Henrik Holst

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