Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:40:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 16:24 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > One point to think of is how this works with multiarch, which is > > > being introduced > > > in Debian. Instead of 'ifort' should we use the architecture tri

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 at 10:22:42 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > i386-linux-intel does not yet officially exist. Where are the > triplets specified? GNU configuration types are specified by GNU config.sub and config.guess (distributed with autoconf, but they have their own upstream git repositor

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 2011-10-23 08:45, Enrico Zini wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:24:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: One point to think of is how this works with multiarch, which is being introduced in Debian. Instead of 'ifort' should we use the architecture triplet, eg. i386-linux-intel instead ? Then the

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:45:06AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Alastair to answer that bit. My understanding on library use and ABI > compatibilities is that the critical point are .mod files in > /usr/include, whereas .a or .so files are perfectly reusable across > compilers. I stand corrected:

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:24:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > One point to think of is how this works with multiarch, which is > > being introduced in Debian. Instead of 'ifort' should we use the > > architecture triplet, eg. i386-linux-intel instead ? > > Then the libraries go in i386-linux

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 16:24 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > One point to think of is how this works with multiarch, which is > > being introduced > > in Debian. Instead of 'ifort' should we use the architecture triplet, eg. > > i386-linux-intel instead ? > > Then the libraries go in i386

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Alastair, On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Cross-posting this to debian-devel for greater visibility on multiarch, > On 2011-10-20 17:30, Enrico Zini wrote: > >another issue caused by a lack of standards for Fortran .mod files is > >that one cannot use, say

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Cross-posting this to debian-devel for greater visibility on multiarch, On 2011-10-20 17:30, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, another issue caused by a lack of standards for Fortran .mod files is that one cannot use, say, gfortran, to link to a library built with another compiler like ifort. We are s