[SciPy-dev] Scipy vs. Fedora Core 4

[Stephen Walton]

Ravikiran Rajagopal wrote:

>The application of the patches (with your suggested modifications along with a 
>big notice saying that gfortran is not supported) will not change anything 
>for the people who do not use gfortran. However, it would make life easier 
>for those who do and might get us more testers who can make scipy usable with 
>gfortran.
>
Fair enough, but the difficulty is that with the present patches 
gfortran is used in preference to g77 if both are present, and gfortran 
as I noted has a sufficiently serious bug that it cannot compile Scipy 
correctly at the present time.

Steve