From w.northcott at unsw.edu.au  Fri May 20 07:09:06 2005
From: w.northcott at unsw.edu.au (Bill Northcott)
Date: Fri May 20 07:09:23 2005
Subject: [Rd] R 2.1 and gfortran
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 From the configure output of the latest devel snapshot:

> checking for g77... no
> checking for f77... no
> checking for xlf... no
> checking for frt... no
> checking for pgf77... no
> checking for fl32... no
> checking for af77... no
> checking for fort77... no
> checking for f90... no
> checking for xlf90... no
> checking for pgf90... no
> checking for epcf90... no
> checking for f95... no
> checking for fort... no
> checking for xlf95... no
> checking for lf95... no
> checking for g95... no
> checking for fc... fc

The Fortran compiler in gcc-4.0 defaults to the name 'gfortran'.   
Other packages such as Octave seem to check for that.

Just to suggest that gfortran should be added to the list of possible  
compilers.

As a footnote I have built R 2.1 on MacOS X using a compiler built  
from very recent Apple cvs sources, with patches from the gfortran  
cvs code up to 18th May.  This binary passes all the tests.

Bill Northcott


[Rd] R 2.1 and gfortran
Bill Northcott