On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:43:12AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I can't help with the build either, but I can make a suggestion. If > your users are going to be doing any serious fortran development get a > commercial Fortran compiler like the one from AbSoft or Portland
I've been quite impressed with the Portland Group compilers, although the version I have does appear to have problems with glibc2.1, and generate executables that won't run with it (this is a fairly old version - I can't afford a new one). > Group. g77 is a great idea, but I think it's still got a ways to go, > and even when it's finished I don't think they'll support any of the > legacy, non-standard fortran extensions that are common in older > fortran code. g77 isn't that bad - to a large extent it already solves most of the problem people want it to solve: it runs a reasonable proportion of old Fortran code (most of what I try works), which is all that most people really need from it. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
