[daip] Re: Linux Fortran compilers

[James Robnett]

   They're in /usr/local
/usr/local/compilers/6.2/gcc_2.95.3/ or /usr/local/compilers/7.1/gcc_2.95.3
and have been for 4 months (since it came out).

    I have several emails in my records that state this.

    On 7.1 machines if you just type gcc you're going to get the one
that gets shipped with Redhat.   You must explicitly select the version
you want.   Considering we have to support 3 (4 now) different versions
for the various projects around the AOC I'm all ears as to how we
can a priori define what compiler somebody will get without knowing
who they are or what they want.

   It's the same setup in CV with one exception, the /usr/local path 
doesn't have the OS version in it (it probably should).

   In short there's absolutely no need to install 2.95.3 somewhere else.

james

On Saturday 28 July 2001 13:25, Eric Greisen wrote:
> We have already been hurt by the RedHat 7.1 compiler mess.  Anyone
> running on a RedHat 7.1 computer here who compiles AIPS will actually
> get the /usr/bin/g77 which is the infamous 2.96 compiler.  This has
> included Bill Cotton and who knows who else.
>
> In testing this I was horrified to discover that the compilers we use
> here on alcor, primate and who knows where else are not the GNU 2.95.2
> that I was told, but instead egcs 2.91.66.
>
> I do not know if you want me installing compilers for the entire AOC
> site but I am about to do so.  They have to be at a location that is
> cross mounted under the same name to all computers - not /usr/bin
> which is local to each machine.  Lacking some better idea I will
> probably put them in /home/AIPS/bin/$ARCH.
>
> Eric