[ydl-gen] Scilab for linux ppc

[Warren Nagourney]

I have the default repositories in yum (I added one - forgot what it  
was and can't check now as I am in OS X) and yum didn't find g77 (I  
typed "yum install g77"). I have been using g77 for years in OS X,  
though I switched to xlf when it became (temporarily, alas) available  
on OS X (at a great price for edu users and with a 30% to 70%  
improvement in performance compared to g77). I am surprised that  
configure didn't flag the absence of g77 and not create a makefile.

-wn


On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:18 PM, David Seikel wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:07:54 -0800 Warren Nagourney
> <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> I tried yum using the "standard" repositories with no luck. In order
>> to compile scilab, one needs g77 which also seems to be unavailable
>> using yum. I am a little new to YDL (I was heavily into linux about
>> 6 years ago, before OS X came on the scene. I couldn't stand OS9)
>> and need to become accustomed to the better sources of apps for ppc
>> linux. I would have thought that g77 was a standard app and would be
>> in the popular places.
>
> g77 is the standard GNU FORTRAN compiler, it is part of the same GNU
> compiler collection that provides gcc.  It is often a separate package
> though.  I have not looked at scilab, but I do know that the standard
> autotools will search for about twenty different FORTRAN compilers  
> when
> it needs one to compile some FORTRAN.  Since TSS is heavily into super
> computing and scientific applications, it would surprise me if you
> could not find some suitable FORTRAN compiler somewhere in the yum
> repositories.
>
> Disclaimer - I have no YDL or PPC hardware to run it on, but I expect
> to have them soon.  So the above is only guess work.
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