Re: Help! Elderly fortran user.

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On 27 August 2015 at 14:29, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 August 2015 at 14:14, Richard Conn Henry wrote:
>> I do have Terminal and I run my current Intel fortran on it.  But I don't do
>> this kind of stuff:  svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/branchname
>> gcc
>>
>> for fun I just tried copy/paste on my MacBook; here's what I got:
>> Last login: Thu Aug 27 08:38:51 on console
>> dhcp-128-220-143-212:~ dickhenry$ svn co
>> svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/branchname gcc
>> svn: URL 'svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/branchname' doesn't exist
>> dhcp-128-220-143-212:~ dickhenry$
>>
>> (copied and pasted from your site).  Of course if you just gave me a
>> copy-&-paste series of commands, I could manage that!  But see my attempt
>> above!
>
> "branchname" is just a placeholder, it needs to be replaced with a
> real branch name, such as "gcc-5-branch"
>
>> How lovely would it be if there were just an app that I could double-click
>> and install gcc-fortran on my Mac!
>
> See https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries (which is linked to from
> the https://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html page which explains that
> we don't provide those binaries ourselves).
>
> I hope one of those binaries there will be suitable for your MacBook.

If you do decide to build the compiler from source rather than use one
of those binary installers, it's much easier to download a release
tarball, rather than check out the sources from version control, see
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html (and the other pages under
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/ too).

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC is also helpful, but installing
a binary package is the simplest solution.