Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On Aug 6, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Catherine C Venturini wrote:
At the NRO Astronomical Image Processing System software (AIPS) website they discuss issues with their software and Fink. The url is http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/Mac.shtml
They mention that the Fortran compiler from Fink is incompatible with the C compiler and libraries provided by Apple. Is this correct? I have not seen any problems with Fink thus far. I have the latest version of Fink for Mac OS 10.3.x as well as the latest development tools from Apple.
Any clarification on this would be very helpful!
Unfortunately, this nrao web page is quite new, and it is rather unfriendly and unsubstantiated FUD about Fink that is spread there. This is not really acceptable behavior from a web site that claims to be scientific. I am CCing the maintainer of that page, and I hope that if he has specific problems with Fink's g77 package, he will be so kind and bring them to the attention of the Fink developers, instead of just announcing to the world that "the current GNU-based compilers from fink appear to be inconsistent with those from Apple and GNU".
This may be out of date. I believe that there was an issue with the assembler and the g77 package available through Fink, but this was long since fixed.
This issue arose actually during the time when Fink was using Apple's gcc sources for its Fortran compiler. Unfortunately, all gcc versions prior to 3.4.0, whether from Apple or from gnu, have a serious bug triggered by Apple's current assembler which breaks the compilation of a lot of Fortran programs. This is the reason why Fink chose more recent gcc sources where this bug is fixed. If there are incompatibilities between this version of g77 and any "libraries provided by Apple", I would like to see these.
In fact, with a g77 compiled from the gcc-3.3.2 sources, as recommended on that page, you will quite likely not be able to compile a package like atlas on Mac OS X 10.3.
-- Martin
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