Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink can't find gfortran

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 2/25/10 10:43 AM, James Liljegren wrote:
> I installed gfortran followed by fink under MacOS 10.6.  gfortran installs in /usr/local/bin but fink can't seem to find it:
> 
> checking for gfortran... no
> 
> Do I need to manually add a symbolic link to gfortran from /usr/bin?  Is there a better way to get fink to recognize gfortran?

Fink's gfortran is provided by the gcc44 package.  We don't support
third-party gfortrans (or third-party installs of most anything else,
for that matter), and in fact, even having one on your system under
/usr/local may wind up causing packages not to build--we've had a number
of reports over the years about problems due to third-party compilers.

Also, what package are you installing?  If it's something that _should_
use gfortran, there may be a missing dependency.  On the other hand,
configure scripts for packages often check for gfortran whether the
package needs it or not--copying and pasting stock scripts, I'd guess.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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