libraries; Fortran / -lf2c / Slackware woes

[Paul Gilbert]

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>> I hope that the problem has been fixed in 0.62, but I wouldn't be too sure of

>> that, since, as far as I know, you and I are the only ones who have been
having
>> this difficulty. I suspect it will become more of an issue as more fortran is

>> ported.

>If this is the problem it should be fixed in 0.62, since R.binary will
>have to know how to find the local fortran compiler and libraries to run
>itself. You can then distribute the fortran code and it will be compiled
>and linked the same way as the built-in fortran.

This assumes that everyone who wants to run the code has a fortran compiler, not
just f2c. This is not really a very good assumption, especially since the
current version of g77 seems to have a bug and won't compile my code. In
general, fortran compilers are much less widely available than C compilers. I
think that distributing the code as generated by f2c will help a lot of people,
but this sometimes means using libf2c. (I've even found that using gcc on the
f2c code works better in Splus than trying to use a fortran compiler.)

Paul

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