bugreport on make.inc.example 3.1.1

[joao]

Hi,

Ive installed lapack 3.1.1 on linux (fedora 5). Since my system has gfortran and no g77,
I decided to follow the suggestions on the install guide and comments, and I picked
TIMER = INT_ETIME instead of the default (uncommented this line, commented
the other).

This no longer compiled, and I found that the problem came from an EXTRA WHITE SPACE
at the end of the "TIMER = INT_ETIME" line ! Removing this white space fixed it,
it is now compiling.

Note that this is the make.inc.example file at the top level, NOT the make.inc.LINUX in
the INSTALL directory.

BTW, is this the right thing to do, use gfortran instead of g77 ? Any issues with this ?

Thx,
Joao

[Julien Langou]

Thanks a lot Joao. We already corrected this in our svn repos. but the bug is still in the online version, you are right.

You can use g77 or gfortran. I think we no longer 'support' g77 in the sense that we no longer check whether
our code work with g77 but as far as I see everything is still working fine with g77. Best is to use gfortran though.

Julien.

[Klaas]

BTW, is this the right thing to do, use gfortran instead of g77 ? Any issues with this ?

If you only use fortran, there should be no problem, however if you call the fortran compiled libraries directly in C or C++ you should pay attention to the complex blas functions (dotproducts). Those are defined in a different way.

Regards
Klaas