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Re: IBM XL Fortran 8.1 for OSX does not load



On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:31:51AM +0100, Peter Klaver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >>>After installing the beta version of IBM XL Fortran 8.1 for Mac 
> >>>OSX on my G4 iBook, the simple program x.f, consisting of the 
> >>>three lines
> >>>      f=.3
> >>>      write(6,*) f
> >>>      end
> >>>compiles but does not load. Doing, for example, f77 x.f gives output 
> >>>message
> >>>
> >>>** _main   === End of Compilation 1 ===
> >>>1501-510  Compilation successful for file x.f.
> >>>/usr/bin/ld: can't map file: /usr/lib ((os/kern) invalid argument)
> >>>
> >>>Does anybody know the origin of this problem?

Can you get a more verbose diagnostic to see exactly what flags are
being passed to ld?

> Strange, it works fine for me. Here is my commandline output:
> 
> dualG4 peter /Users/peter/md> cat x.f
>           f=0.3
>           write (6,*) f
>           end
> dualG4 peter /Users/peter/md> xlf x.f
> ** _main   === End of Compilation 1 ===
> 1501-510  Compilation successful for file x.f.
> dualG4 peter /Users/peter/md> ./a.out
>  0.3000000119
> dualG4 peter /Users/peter/md>
> 
> This is also the xlf beta, not the final release. It also works fine 
> for me with Absoft. Do you have that (or g77) installed? See if that 
> will work, if so your problem would appear not to originate in XLF.

There are known problems with some versions of the g77 compiler on OS
X, including the versions included in some editions of Apple Developer
Tools. I mean, if the program:

       end

won't compile, you know you're in trouble:) Many gcc-3.3 are broken,
recent gcc-3.4 are fixed IIRC.

dan

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Daniel Macks
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References: 
 >Re: IBM XL Fortran 8.1 for OSX does not load (From: "Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: IBM XL Fortran 8.1 for OSX does not load (From: Boris Blankleider <email@hidden>)
 >Re: IBM XL Fortran 8.1 for OSX does not load (From: Peter Klaver <email@hidden>)



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