Re: Weekly MacOS X binaries for gfortran!

[Carsten Lemmen <c dot lemmen at fz-juelich dot de>]

FX Coudert wrote:
> > no success here (iBook G3 600 MHz) compiling a simple definition file 
> > from the netCDF distro.
> >
> >  >gfortran -c -O2  typeSizes.f90
> > /var/tmp//ccsgchto.s:1:Unknown pseudo-op: .machine
> > /var/tmp//ccsgchto.s:1:Rest of line ignored. 1st junk character valued 
> > 112 (p).
> > /var/tmp//ccsgchto.s:8:Unknown pseudo-op: .subsections_via_symbols
> > gmake: *** [typeSizes.o] Error 1
>
>
> OK. I had the same problem when compiling gfortran, but I thought it 
> would not be present at runtime.
> It is fixed by installing an up-to-date version of cctools : 
> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/cctools-528.5.dmg
I'll try,

doesn't seem to work with cctools-525 which is currently provided 
through fink

> To people with knowldedge of MacOSX: is there a way to avoid requiring 
> this? or should we assume that anyone willing to use gfortran will have 
> to install it?

most unixy osx people will have fink anyway and could get the package 
from there (if up-to-date)

> Until I get enough information to decide this, I update the Wiki to 
> include this info.
>
> Cheers,
> FX

Cheers, smilec