On Sep 9, 9:05 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 9, 5:09 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > > > > > > There's odd bits code scattered around in Sage that do tests for g95, which > > is > > an old Fortran 95 compiler that in any modern Linux or Unix systems. > > > According to Wikipedia > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G95 > > > gfortran was forked from g95 in 2003 - i.e. 7 years ago. > > > I'm not sure at what point gfortran became the dominant compiler, but I've > > not > > seen g95 used in the last few years. It might still exist on some systems, > > but > > people tend to use gfortran instead, as that is part of gcc. > > > Do others, like me, believe we just remove such bits of code as and when we > > come > > across them? i.e. don't make specific tests for gfortran vs g95? > > > g95 binaries have already been removed from Sage > > >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7485 > > > There's a few bits of code in the ATLAS package which make such tests - one > > of > > them uses the "readelf" program to determine if a pre-installed version of > > ATLAS > > was built with g95. > > > William said here > > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/1b6235... > > > "Probably the only platforms that get g95 are older OS X." > > It seems like PowerPC gets it.
Well, I run MacOSX 10.5 on my PPC (G4), and I have gfortran. I would propose dropping support for g95... E.g. it only causes a headache when updating packages that are supposed to depend on it, e.g. cvxopt. I have no idea how and where to test my new cvxopt-1.1.2 spkg with g95... > > > Since ATLAS is not installed on OS X, it seems even less worthwhile having > > such > > a test in the ATLAS package. > > True; we use the system one. > > Sage also needs fortran for R, at least. Anywhere else? If someone > knows how to test for the Sage fortran in a compiled build, I can > quick see which one is installed on my PPC box; the command local/bin/ > sage_fortran --version yielded an error (interestingly, a different > error on 10.6 than on 10.4). Maybe the fortrans get axed after the > build is done? > > - kcrisman Dima -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
