Re: fortran

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes:

> octave depends on blas and on fftw. octave and fftw are built with
> language fortran77, but blas has been upped to fortran95 (2013/06/03).
> End result is that compiling octave fails with
>
> configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found incompatible
> with your Fortran 77 compiler settings.
>
> Fortran version inflation all around?

Yes.  As I understand from Joerg, there is no consistent fortran ABI, so
one must use the same fortran compiler for all programs.

There does not seem to be a reasonable answer to this problem, as g95 is
huge compared to f2c.