Re: [Plplot-general] ANNOUNCEMENT: PLplot Release 5.6.0

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2006-05-10 20:00+0900 Valery Pipin wrote:

> Thank you very much for explanations!
> Is there any special flag to add the support for f95  during configure?
> I'd like to see whether it will work for Intel's ifort compiler.

Such a test would be most helpful.

To specifically answer your question, if autoconf cannot find ifort by
itself, then you should be able to set the FC environment variable (and
corresponding FCFLAGS variable) to give you full control over the particular
fortran compiler and set of compiler options that you want to test.  This is
in exact analogy with the present f77 interface system where the F77 and
FFLAGS environment variables can be used to control the particular fortran
77 compiler and flags for that compiler.

Of course, you cannot test our new f95 interface until we supply you with a
test tarball that contains our latest work. Before deploying such a test
tarball, our core developers need to do additional checking of the fortran
95 interface for the variety of platforms accessible to them. All such
testing will be delayed until this weekend because of the current
SourceForge CVS outage.  So my guess is it will probably be a week from now
before we can supply you with a test tarball that you and other fortran 9x
enthusiasts can test.  Watch this space for an announcement.

BTW, after many years of fortran 77 experience, this has been my first
sustained exposure to fortran 9x (in particular gfortran), and I must say I
am most impressed with the language capabilities (especially the powerful
array facilities).  All those fortran 77 issues that have been unconsciously
annoying me all these years are no longer an issue with fortran 9x.  So I
think all our fortran-aware users are going to be most happy with us for
finally supplying a modern fortran 95 interface.  Of course, there are bound
to be "teething" troubles with this new interface, but we will work those
out as the bug reports come in.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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