Installing gfortran-14
I did this in my Ubuntu 22.04 system with no trouble: (lf) john:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test but the next step failed: (lf) john:~$ sudo apt install gfortran-14 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package gfortran-14 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'gfortran-14' has no installation candidate (lf) john:~$ What should I have done? -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz
Re: Installing gfortran-14
Thank you Damian. Tried the first suggestion. It said I already had gfortran; it turned out to be version 13. Tried the second suggestion. My system has not heard of git. Managed to find gcc-14.2.0.tar so I am now struggling to do something with that. On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Damian Rouson wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:34:50 + From: Damian Rouson To: John Harper Cc: "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installing gfortran-14 Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:35:39 +1200 (NZST) Resent-From: You don't often get email from damian@archaeologic.codes. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> It has been a few years since I used Ubuntu. If I recall correctly, I think you can just use sudo apt install gcc and that will install gcc, g++, and gfortran. My Linux knowledge is limited. I never figured out how to install a specific version of GCC on Ubuntu so I think you just get what you get. However, what I liked about Ubuntu was that it seemed to be aggressive about installing more up-to-date versions of GCC than some other Linux distributions, so if it's an option, you might get a newer version of GCC by updating your Ubuntu kernel and then the above apt command again. I think the latest version is Ubuntu 24. FWIW, I mostly used the Lubuntu lightweight Ubuntu distribution. If you really need GCC 14 and the above advice doesn't help, you might try running the OpenCoarrays installer script to build whatever version you want from source: git clone https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays cd opencoarrays ./install.sh --package gcc --install-version 14 --install-prefix --num-threads 4 or run ./install.sh. --help for additional options or shorter versions of the above options. I hope this is all helpful. Damian On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM John Harper mailto:john.har...@vuw.ac.nz>> wrote: I did this in my Ubuntu 22.04 system with no trouble: (lf) john:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test but the next step failed: (lf) john:~$ sudo apt install gfortran-14 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package gfortran-14 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'gfortran-14' has no installation candidate (lf) john:~$ What should I have done? -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz<mailto:john.har...@vuw.ac.nz> -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz
Re: Installing gfortran-14
Hi Thomas Thank you! I got part of the way there after discovering that download-prerequisites had to be download_prerequisites, but make -j12 had a fatal error. What I did was $ cd % mkdir Gcc % cd ~/Gcc $ tar xvjf ../Downloads/gmp-6.2.1.tar.bz2 $ tar -zxvf ../Downloads/mpc-1.2.1.tar.gz $ tar xvjf ../Downloads/mpfr-4.1.0.tar.bz2 $ tar -x -f ../Downloads/gcc-14.2.0.tar $ cd gcc-14.2.0 $ contrib/download_prerequisites $ cd $ mkdir Gcc-build $ cd Gcc-build $ ../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran $ make -j12 After several minutes of checking and compilation, that ended with In file included from ../../../../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/libgcc/../gcc/tsystem.h:95, from ../../../../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/libgcc/libgcov.h:42, from ../../../../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/libgcc/libgcov-merge.c:26: /usr/include/stdio.h:27:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory 27 | #include | ^~ compilation terminated. make[5]: *** [Makefile:931: _gcov_merge_add.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/john/Gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/32/libgcc' make[4]: *** [Makefile:1221: multi-do] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/john/Gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc' make[3]: *** [Makefile:127: all-multi] Error 2 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/john/Gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc' make[2]: *** [Makefile:24838: all-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/john/Gcc-build' make[1]: *** [Makefile:30438: stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/john/Gcc-build' make: *** [Makefile:1108: all] Error 2 That error message is puzzling because the offending file seems to exist: (lf) john:~/Gcc-build$ ls -l /usr/*/*/bits/libc* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4286 May 7 08:34 /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h (I know Fortran much better than bash and make) John On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Thomas Koenig wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:19:16 + From: Thomas Koenig To: John Harper , Damian Rouson Cc: "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installing gfortran-14 Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:19:33 +1200 (NZST) Resent-From: [You don't often get email from tkoe...@netcologne.de. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] Hi John, Thank you Damian. Tried the first suggestion. It said I already had gfortran; it turned out to be version 13. Tried the second suggestion. My system has not heard of git. Managed to find gcc-14.2.0.tar so I am now struggling to do something with that. Assuming you have the top level of the gcc sources (where the configure script resides) in the ~/Gcc directory, you can do the following: $ cd ~/Gcc $ contrib/download-prerequisites $ cd $ mkdir Gcc-build $ cd Gcc-build $ ../Gcc/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran $ make -j8 $ make -j4 install The --prefix=$HOME option will install binaries, support libraries etc under your home directory; if you want to put it somewhere else, specify it as an alternative argument. The build directory has to be separate from the source directory, this is a frequent source of weird build errors. Adjust directory names to taste. The "-j8" option will use eight parallel compilations if possible; adjust to approximately the number of CPUs on your system. Having 2GB memory per job is quite sufficient. Hope this helps Thomas -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz
Re: Installing gfortran-14
Hi Thomas & Damian Thank you. I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 in an x86_64 system. I do have dpkg and it said (lf) john:~/Gcc-build$ dpkg -S libc-header-start.h libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h So I tried $ sudo apt install libc6-dev $ ../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran $ make -j4 but I still got the same error message from make. John On Thu, 29 Aug 2024, Thomas Koenig wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:25:23 + From: Thomas Koenig To: John Harper Cc: Damian Rouson , "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installing gfortran-14 Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:25:38 +1200 (NZST) Resent-From: [You don't often get email from tkoe...@netcologne.de. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] Hi John, /usr/include/stdio.h:27:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory 27 | #include I'm not sure what system you are running. On my Ubuntu system, which is Debian-based, you can search for the package that provides a file with $ dpkg -S libc-header-start.h which, for me, returns libc6-dev. You can then install that with $ apt install libc6-dev If your system does not provide dpkg and apt, you'll have to use whatever tool there is. Best regards Thomas -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz
Re: Installing gfortran-14
Dear Jerry, Thomas and Damian, Not knowing what to do with libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386 I tried instead to do without multilib by disabling it: $ ../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran $ make -j4 $ make -j4 install That ran for over an hour, without obvious error messages though occasional warnings flashed up for milliseconds on the screen while configure and make were running. I now have a gfortran-14 compiler - thank you all! Now to discover how to remove all the out-of-date gfortran stuff cluttering up my computer. (I don't intend ever to run gfortran-9 to gfortran-12 again.) John On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Jerry D wrote: Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:19:37 + From: Jerry D To: John Harper , Thomas Koenig Cc: Damian Rouson , "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installing gfortran-14 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:19:51 +1200 (NZST) Resent-From: [You don't often get email from jvdelis...@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] On 8/29/24 7:53 PM, John Harper wrote: Hi Thomas & Damian Thank you. I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 in an x86_64 system. I do have dpkg and it said (lf) john:~/Gcc-build$ dpkg -S libc-header-start.h libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h So I tried $ sudo apt install libc6-dev $ ../Gcc/gcc-14.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran $ make -j4 but I still got the same error message from make. John I am reminded. When using --enable-multilib you need both the 32-bit and the 64-bit libraries. Possibly libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386. Jerry -- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria Univ. of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz
