Gentoo Archives: gentoo-science

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Fortran90 codes
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:05:58
Message-Id: 43EE6D2D.2030101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Fortran90 codes by "M.R. Francis"
1 M.R. Francis wrote:
2 > 1) I have successfully installed the g95 compiler (no ebuild), and once
3 > configured properly, emerge does end up using it. I installed Octave,
4 > and autoconfig found and apparently used g95. Might that be a good,
5 > free (as in speech) alternative to ifc?
6 > 2) Does anyone know what the status is for gcc-4, with support for
7 > Fortran 90/95?
8
9 The gfortran in portage gcc-4.1 snapshots is quite capable although
10 still missing some features compared to g77 [1]. The gfortran in gcc-4.0
11 is still reasonable.
12
13 > I'm not using Fortran much these days, but I can give a shot at writing
14 > an ebuild for g95 and submit a bug.
15
16 It certainly wouldn't hurt to also have a g95 ebuild, as they do have
17 different capabilities.
18
19 Thanks,
20 Donnie
21
22 1. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19292

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