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

[Michael Abshoff]

Robert Kern wrote:

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>>> 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.
> 
> Manuals sometimes give a little history. If it got dropped in version
> 8.0, it's probably documented in there, at least as a bit of
> advertising. Are the manuals publicly accessible online anywhere? I'm
> happy to do some searching myself.
> 

Hi Robert,

caught a lucky break and found a box with Sun Studio 11: It ships a 
libf77compat.so.

To identify:

mabshoff at cerberus: /usr/local/SUNWspro/bin>./f77 -V
NOTICE: Invoking ./f90 -f77 -ftrap=%none -V
f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 Patch 121019-04 2006/10/26
Usage: f90 [ options ] files.  Use 'f90 -flags' for details
mabshoff at cerberus: /usr/local/SUNWspro/bin>./f90 -V
f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 Patch 121019-04 2006/10/26
Usage: f90 [ options ] files.  Use 'f90 -flags' for details
mabshoff at cerberus: /usr/local/SUNWspro/bin>./f95 -V
f95: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 Patch 121019-04 2006/10/26
Usage: f95 [ options ] files.  Use 'f95 -flags' for details

Hope this helps.

It seems that Phil is not poking around. I have some odd numpy 1.0.4cvs 
failure with gcc in 32 bit mode on Solaris 10 Intel when computing roots 
of polynomials. Since Sage will finally upgrade to numpy 1.1 soon I will 
try to see if I can reproduce the problem there and for fun I can also 
build numpy 1.1 + scipy in 64 bit mode with Sun Forte. So if there are 
any patches let me know and I can try them out. Otherwise I will likely 
do some crude patching to get the flags right and let you guys work out 
the fines details :)

Cheers,

Michael