Re: fortran

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:47:17PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.

Correct, but the blas change should be reverted nonetheless.

Joerg