LOTS of failures when making check for gfortran--is it Ok?

[tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de]

sean yang <seanatpurdue@hotmail.com> wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006:
> I successfully compile a GCC4.0.2 with Fortran front end. I tried to
> use it to compile some fortran programs, so far all of them work fine.
>
> But the make check gave lots of failure. Is it tolerable to have
> thousands of failure?

No, this means that something's broken in your build, and the compiler  
is probably not usable.  Nevertheless, you may want to use at least  
gcc 4.1.1, as the gfortran that comes with gcc 4.0.x isn't really  
usable, even if the testsuite passes cleanly.

- Tobi

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