[SciPy-dev] From F90 to F77

[John Travers]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:07 -0500, Pierre GM wrote:
> All,
> 
> A few months ago, I wrote a small scipy package calling some Fortran 90 code. 
> Everything went fine until we tried to compile the package with g77, where 
> the compiler choked on the slices and FLOOR that were present in the code. 
> Rewriting the F90 code to get rid of the slices was easy, but I wouldn't want 
> to mess with FLOOR.
> 
> What would be the best approach to have access to FLOOR during the build ?
> 

Why not just use gfortran? g77 is no longer maintained for several years
whereas gfortran is under very active development and should compile all
f95/f90/f77 code and even have compatibility with many of g77s bugs (err
features).

Best regards,
John