[daip] AIPS text version woes

[Eric Greisen]

On 07/30/2015 10:02 AM, Michael Bietenholz wrote:
> What a mess!  Given what seems to be the general flakiness of gfortran,
> I wonder if one really should make it all work
> in some particular version of gfortran, since it seems pretty
> likely it will break with the next version.
>
> I'll poke around at HartRAO to see what versions of gfortran
> are around there.
>
> Not respecting the "fno-automatic" seems like a fairly serious
> bug - the existence of the compiler flag suggests that people
> other AIPS use this feature.  Unless that were a particular bug
> in 4.4.7 which subsequently got fixed, although you'd think
> there would be reference to that around and likely a fix
> in the redhat version.....
>
>                michael

I went for broke and tried gfortran 5.1.0 and it seems to be the same as 
4.8.3.  Y2K gives the exact same # bits agreement in the two and
both honor -fno-automatic.  And I still do not find that option in any 
of the helps.

Eric