[Developers] F77 versus F90 compiler

[Steve White]

OK, so I made a darwin8.2.0 known-architectures file,
and now I guess your patch is working.

There are some other errors though.  I'll work those out and submit
a separate patch.

I'm not clear though on:  will this help the problems on Psi?


On  4.11.05, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2005, at 07:49:36, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> 
> >On Nov 3, 2005, at 06:09:45, Tom Goodale wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> >>>In the past, there was virtually no free format Fortran code in  
> >>>Cactus.  The problem went unnoticed, but Cactus could not  
> >>>actually handle free format
> >>
> >>That's not true.  If you look at the AIX and BlueGene known- 
> >>architecture file you will see the way around this problem.
> >
> >Thanks for the pointer.  That code is... clever.  Indeed, the same  
> >code is already in the darwin configuration file.  I missed the  
> >point that make evaluates variables and expressions dynamically,  
> >making the wrapper script superfluous.
> >
> >I'll continue from there.
> 
> I think I found the problem.
> 
> Cactus adds, at run time, some magic to F90FLAGS to make the compiler  
> accept both fixed and free form source code.  This magic is added to  
> F90FLAGS, but not to F77FLAGS.  F77FLAGS are set up at configuration  
> time so that the compiler accepts fixed form source code.
> 
> When we copy F90FLAGS to F77FLAGS, things break.  Cactus has to add  
> its magic also to F77FLAGS.  The enclosed patch (untested) does that  
> for the Darwin architecture.  It also sets F77FLAGS and F90FLAGS to  
> the same value initially.  Can you test the patch?
> 
> Previous statements about this being an F90 (and not F77) problem, or  
> this having to do with whether the user specifies F90FLAGS or not,  
> were incorrect.
> 
> -erik
> 
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