From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2007-11-17 02:11:13
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On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> It looks like there are problems with F95 [...] and octave. Version >> information: >> >> gfortran --version >> GNU Fortran 95 (GCC) 4.2.0 20060512 (experimental) >> >> octave -version >> GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0). >> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton. > > The Debian testing version (which works well for PLplot) is > > irwin@raven> gfortran --version > GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.3 20071014 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-3) > > It appears the Debian version is 17 months later which is a long > time in the > gfortran world. > > Hazen, perhaps a prerelease version of 4.2.3 is a bit much to ask, > but could > you install, say, version 4.2.1 or 4.2.2? That might cure the "utf-8" > string problems your gfortran compiler detects in every example > (which are > mostly all ascii, by the way). I installed gfortran 4.2.1 and it seems to have fixed whatever was causing this problem. -Hazen |