>
> Over the last decade and a half I have developed an 80,000 line
> environmental modeling utility library. All of it, including the
> Makefile system, work cleanly on AIX/XLF (with choice of underscoring
> convention), IRIX (5 and 6, "f77" or "f90"), Linux Alpha/DEC "fort",
> Linux IA64 (Intel, gcc/g77, gcc/g95), Linux x86 (gcc/g77, gcc/g95,
> Intel, PathScale, PGI (choice of underscoring), Sun StudioExpress,
> Absoft (choice of underscoring), OSF1/fort, SunOS (4 or 5, f77 or f90),
> Cray UNICOS f77 and f90, HP-UX (f77 and F90).
>
> The Makefile system does *NOT* work with "gfortran" -- I've tried
> several versions, the most recent being from the Mandriva RPM
>
gcc-gfortran-4.2.3-6mnb1. For a seemingly random set of the source
> files, the make-log seems to indicate success, but the object file
> is nowhere to be found, e.g.
>
> ...
> cd /home/coats/Work/Linux2_x86_64gfort; gfortran -c -DIOAPICPL=1
> -DAUTO_ARRAYS=1 -DF90=1 -DFLDMN=1 -DFSTR_L=int -DIOAPI_NO_STDOUT=1
> -DAVOID_FLUSH=1 -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -m64 -Wall -Wsurprising
> -openmp -I/home/coats/Work/ioapi /home/coats/Work/ioapi/bilin.f
> Warning: Nonconforming tab character in column 1 of line 22
> ...
> ar: bilin.o: No such file or directory
> ...
>
> AND:
>
> ls /home/coats/Work/Linux2_x86_64gfort/bilin*
> /bin/ls: No match.
>
> Claiming success when the actual result is failure is *CRAP*. IBM had
> a similar issue with "xlf77" fifteen years ago, and they *fixed*it*.
>
> FWIW -- Carlie Coats
