Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] fortran scripts

[Christopher Schwan]

On Friday 13 August 2010 14:20:45 Steven Trogdon wrote:
> On 08/13/2010 03:34:21 AM, Christopher Schwan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Friday 13 August 2010 00:54:53 Steven Trogdon wrote:
> >> Hi Christopher,
> >>
> >> On 08/12/2010 03:16:44 PM, Christopher Schwan wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Thursday 12 August 2010 17:37:34 Steven Trogdon wrote:
> >> >> Hi:
> >> >>
> >> >> I had apparently installed the Sage-provided scripts
> >> >>
> >> >> sage-g77_shared
> >> >> sage_fortran
> >>
> >> 	<SNIP>
> >>
> >> > Thats absolutely right - thank you for pointing that out. I have added
> >> > these files for now, but I think I will write a fix so we wont need
> >> > these.
> >> >
> >> >> Steve
> >> >
> >> > Christopher
> >>
> >> Relative to the included files, it appears that with the Sage-provided
> >> sage-g77_shared script, sage_fortran can't just point to the fortran
> >> compiler since sage_fortran needs to have arguments, i.e. the "$@" is
> >> needed in using sage_fortran.
> >
> > "$@" just adds the command line arguments given to sage_fortran to
> > fortran, which is what a symlink implicitly does.
>
> Perhaps so, but things don't work as they are presently. Maybe the python
> script messes up things. If I replace, in the sage-g77_shared script,
> sage_fortran with the path to the fortran compiler then things work. The
> symlink
>
> 	/usr/bin/sage_fortran -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gfortran
>
> on my machine will then not be used.

Ok I did that replacement - (should be) fixed in latest commit!

>
> >> Steve
> >
> > Christopher
>
> Steve

Christopher