gfortran problem

[Tim Prince]

Granville Sewell wrote:
> I reported a problem with gfortran on my SUSE 10.1 Linux PC a few weeks
> ago:
> 
>     www.nabble.com/libfortran.so-problem-td14674463.html
> 
> So far no one seems to have figured out what is going on, and apparently
> this problem was reported by someone else several months ago.  I tried
> using the new gmp and mpfr libraries as suggested by Dominiq, but that
> didn't help.  Anyone have any further ideas?
> 
It's not clear to me from the loosely connected group of messages what
you are getting at.  OpenSuSE 10.1 is too old to run successfully on my
laptop, but I'll mention the following:
The latest version of mpfr provided by SuSE will give you the gfortran
configure message about "buggy, but proceeding" or something like that.
 It does work, to the extent expected.
I have not been able to find documentation about how to install the
current mpfr 64-bit on x86_64, other than what is contained in e-mail
threads.  mpfr does not use configure --prefix in the usual way for
x86_64; instead, you need something like configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
--enable-shared.  SuSE is not listed as a supported OS for mpfr, but the
same problem would apply to any x86_64 with the usual configuration,
such as RH/FC/CentOS.  Apparently, --prefix works for Debian.  If you
attempt to update mpfr, and don't get the installation right, your
gfortran will break.
Other than that, I have had no such difficulties with gcc/gfortran/g++
4.3 on OpenSuSE.