[SciPy-user] -lf77compat failure - SciPy on AMD64 Sun Studio

[Michael Abshoff]

Robert Kern wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 16:16, Phil Forrest <forrest at physics.auburn.edu> wrote:

<SNIP>

>> Can anyone shed some light on how to resolve the "ld: fatal: library
>> -lf77compat: not found" error? Is the scipy build attempting calls that
>> force F77 mode/calls?
> 
> All of our FORTRAN code is FORTRAN-77.
> 
>> I would appreciate any documentation URL that might help clear this up.
> 
> I'm afraid that we don't have much in the way of Sun-specific
> information, nor am I much familiar with the lay of the land, here. Is
> the FORTRAN-77 support an optional install? Or is your version of the
> compiler supposed to work without any extra libraries like f77compat
> any more? If this is the case and you can figure out which version no
> longer requires f77compat, we can put the appropriate check into
> numpy. 

I am not sure when it changed. When I look at

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/671

it seemt that up to and including Release 6 of the Sun compiler it was 
still valid.

> Please provide the output of "f90 -V".

This is SunStudio12-200709:

-bash-3.00$ ./f77  -V
NOTICE: Invoking ./f90 -f77 -ftrap=%none -V
f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_i386 Patch 127002-01 2007/07/18
Usage: f90 [ options ] files.  Use 'f90 -flags' for details
-bash-3.00$ ./f90  -V
f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_i386 Patch 127002-01 2007/07/18
Usage: f90 [ options ] files.  Use 'f90 -flags' for details
-bash-3.00$ ./f95  -V
f95: Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_i386 Patch 127002-01 2007/07/18
Usage: f95 [ options ] files.  Use 'f95 -flags' for details

I currently do not have access to older Sun Studio releases personally, 
but I could ask some people if they could check. This is unlikely to 
work, but I will try.

> Thanks.
> 


Cheers,

Michael