On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:13 PM, mabshoff wrote:

>>
>
> g95 is a gfortran fork which used to be better in the gcc 4.0/4.1
> timeframe, but has seriously fallen behind gfortran these days IMHO.
> But I am not a Fortran compiler expert, so some people might disagree.
> I would strongly vote for getting rid of all Fortran binaries in Sage
> except for the OSX ones since they do cause problems. Using the system
> provided gfortran, g95 or g77 does work as well and we have one fewer
> source of pain. It does require some fixing of the Fortran runtime
> detection used in Sage, but I meant to clean that up anyway.


gfortran is much better than g95. I'd recommend including gfortran  
instead
of g95 if you don't eliminate the fortran compiler. I filed a Radar some
time ago to include Fortran on OS X for the dev tools, but it seems to
have got lost. I may open a new one.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Lahey
PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey

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