environment modules for gcc/gfortran?

[Tom Roche]

Katherine Holcomb Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:49:14 -0400
> You need to roll your own modules script. They are fairly simple Tcl
> scripts with some extensions. So you would install the newer version
> into some unique location -- don't make it fight with the system gcc
> in /usr. Let's say it's in /opt/gcc-4.7

Thanks for the instructions @

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-03/msg00140.html

! One more question: is 4.7 the gcc/gfortran version you would use?
I ask because I got the following post from the cluster maintainer
today:

>> I tried to compile the 4.6 version of GCC from source and could not
>> get it to work. If you have a working version, I would be happy to
>> put it [up]

FWIW, the cluster is running RHEL 5.4.

TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>