On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:49 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > So it seems getarg, which is needed for mpich, is missing from gfortran, > > as are other variants used by other fortran compilers. Is there a > > gfortran equivalent? > > > > Thanks, > > -Adam > > I've been using this hack for getarg, building it into the base Cernlib > library "libkernlib" only in the case of compiling with gfortran: > > ***** Begin getarg.F > * Wrapper GETARG routine for gfortran, > * originally written by Harald Vogt <hvogt (at) ifh (dot) de> > * > SUBROUTINE GETARG (JARG, CHARG) > * The following stuff is required to use gfortrans inline routine > * It is required to avoid the calling GETARG here which conflicts > * to the Fortran rules > CHARACTER CHARG*(*) > CALL MYGETARG (JARG, CHARG) > END > > SUBROUTINE MYGETARG (JARG, CHARG) > CHARACTER CHARG*(*) > * gfortran translates the following line to a call > * to its library routine _gfortran_getarg_i4 > * therefore it will not clash in the linking step > CALL GETARG (JARG, CHARG) > END > ***** End getarg.F > > Note, I haven't checked that this still works with gfortran-4.2.
Wow, impressive and elegant little hack! > Of course, this won't help your configure script not to fail. Also, in > the long run this is not a good solution, since there could be problems > if this object code appears in several different linked libraries > (especially if there are different versions). Would be better if the > missing getarg_ symbol could be put into libgfortran. > > N.B. I want to emphasize that since I haven't uploaded a version of > Cernlib compiled against gfortran yet, this hack doesn't exist in any > object code already in Debian (to the best of my knowledge). Well I can always shoehorn it into the configure file. But if it's this simple, it seems like a trivial patch for someone who knows gfortran well... Thanks! -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
