[MITgcm-support] teething.. genmake2 with gfortran

[Ed Hill]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 16:55 +1200, jschwarz at awi-bremerhaven.de wrote:
> Thanks Ed!  
> 
> > So, out of curiosity, which version of gfortran are you using?  If at
> > all possible, please avoid 4.0.x which is known to be quite buggy.  
> 
> I'm using gfortran from some wiki pages found after a frustrating attempt 
> to get gcc-g77, which doesn't ship with gcc in SUSE 10.1 for Mortals (but 
> they kindly include it for businesses running suse Enterprise).  However, 
> the gfortran version i stumbled across is actually 4.2.0.   Specifically, 
> gfortran -dumpversion says:
> GNU Fortran 95 (GCC)  4.2.0  20060626 (experimental)
> I hope that means i won't have problems with it, as the idea of trying 
> again to get g77 may finally drive me to resign and find work at the 
> supermarket!

Hi Jill,

You're installing things in /usr/irun so it seems that you have root
permissions on that machine.  If that is so, then could you please
consider switching to Fedora Core 4 or 5:

  http://fedora.redhat.com/

since, immediately following install, you can run (as root) just this
one command:

  yum install netcdf netcdf-devel compat-gcc-32-g77 gcc-gfortran

and have *everything* in place to use MITgcm (with netCDF!) with an
absolute minimum of fuss?  Honestly, you're wasting a lot of time with
the above and it surely beats working at the supermarket...!  :-)

Ed

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