gfortran problem

[Jerry DeLisle]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 9:17 PM, Tim Prince <tprince@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Newest gmp/mpfr for old SUSE distributions are available from the
> openSUSE build service repository for devel:tools:gcc at
> 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/gcc/
> 
> Richard.
> 
Granville,

Have you considered updating to OpenSuse 10.3 or is that too risky for you?

Jerry