[Debichem-devel] RFH/RFC: gfortran transition (status information)

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Freitag, den 29.02.2008, 02:40 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert:
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.02.2008, 15:54 +0100 schrieb Michael Banck:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:55AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 
> [..]
> > >   The package (build-)depends on libf2c2(-dev) instead of libg2c0(-dev)
> > >   now. However, we could get rid of the dependency by building the
> > >   library from the FORTRAN sources. An explanation how to achieve this
> > >   can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/465723 (including a statement
> > >   by Tommi Hassinen). But I'm quite busy atm, so please feel free to
> > >   step forward and take over testing this solution if possible. The
> > >   FORTRAN patch to fix the programming bugs has already been added to
> > >   our SVN. The s_copy() call in fdate.c needs to be replaced.
> > 
> > I wondered about this as well a while ago, and I think it'd be an
> > elegant solution if ghemical et al. work fine afterwards with this.
> 
> That's indeed the question. Do we just want to jump into the water and
> test this in unstable?

Hm. Seems with the -ff2c switch, gfortran produces code compatible to
g77 and f2c. Without this switch, there are some changes that need to be
considered. The man-page contains some information.

Regards, Daniel