[Rd] Broken installer (PR#14083)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:45 PM, robert.a.weller at vanderbilt.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Robert A. Weller
> Version: current
> OS: Mac OS 10.6
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.59.140.86)
>
>
> The gfortran 4.2.4 installer in the Tools section that is supposed  
> to install a
> Snow Leopard (10.6) version is actually installing version 4.2.1. I  
> am finding
> that the 4.2.1 compiler installed as issues e.g. in interpreting the
> -fno-automatic command line switch and also -fdefault-real-8.
>
> We looked directly into the installer and saw that it was actually  
> installing
> 4.2.1. Of course, gfortran --version confirmed this.
>

You are, of course, wrong because what you're looking at is the Apple  
gcc version which is the version of the driver and the cc part (it is  
the gcc-42 tree of Apple). The fortran merged unto the Apple gcc  
branch is indeed 4.2.4.

Cheers,
Simon