MacOS X installer package

FX Coudert Francois-Xavier.Coudert@lcp.u-psud.fr
Tue Jan 18 22:16:00 GMT 2005


Hi all,

Sorry to bother you once more about the topic of binaries. After user 
feedback (let's say "very strong" feedback) on comp.lang.fortran, it 
appears the binaries for Mac and Windows currently provided seem to 
Unixish and not user-friendly to people outside the gfortran community. 
So, I made a gfortran installer for MacOSX :

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To install gfortran, simply download the installer at:
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~coudert/gfortran/gfortran-macosx.dmg
After following the instructions (mainly press OK buttons), gfortran is
available from command-line with the "gfortran" command. Enjoy!

PS: the first time you install gfortran, you will need to install
up-to-date cctools with the following package:
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~coudert/gfortran/macosx-dependencies/cctools-528.5.dmg
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It installs the gfortran tree in /usr/local/gfortran (which seems to be 
the policy for such packages) with a symbolic link in /usr/bin. I know 
some of you run MacOS, and I'd really appreciate a bit of testing (just 
download, install, test on a simple "hello world"). This may seem a bit 
intrusive to you (it's the case for me, I don't like my /usr being 
modified), but I guess

Once again, I am sorry for the activity generated about packages lately, 
but I guess they are an important part of the development (user feedback 
is good, as long as we stress that gfortran is still in development).

Thanks,
FX

PS: as Apple doesn't provide an uninstaller, you will have to manually 
remove the /usr/local/gfortran directory and the /usr/bin/gfortran 
symlink to uninstall it.



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