Re: regarding libgfortran.so and libgfortranbegin.a

From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers_at_cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:33:14 +0100

Hi Kevin,

  also on MacOS X Fink's gcc 4.2 version the libgfortranbegin is found in the gcc specific directories. I've fixed the ROOT makefile part of Linux to do the same as on MacOS X and it seems to link correctly with gfortran now. Take the svn trunk and try it.

Cheers, Fons.

Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Hi Dmitry and others,
>
> On Nov 5, 2007 1:59 PM, <naumov_at_nusun.jinr.ru> wrote:
>

>> your suggestion about adding -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2 to the
>> compilation line worked! Thanks a lot for so quick reply!
>>
>> Yes I had already gfortran-4.2 installed. There were one more strange
>> thing. By default (seems) root is linking lgfortran.so while as I have
>> gfortran-4.2 there is no lgfortran.so but libgfortran.so.2.0.0. I manualy
>> set up a symbolic link
>> ln -s libgfortran.so.2.0.0 lgfortran.so
>> to make root compiling. It would be great however if root will detect such
>> things automatically.

>
> I've just filed a bug report in the Debian BTS about the absence of
> the libgfortran.so symlink and the libgfortranbegin.a static lib from
> /usr/lib/. Interested parties can follow it at:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/449433
>
> to see what the Debian gfortran maintainers eventually decide.
>
> best regards,
>

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