Re: [SPAM] Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler
Jo Shields wrote:
> A J Stiles wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:00, João Marcelo wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everybody,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1.036 on my Debian AMD64
>>> Opteron Box. Unfortunely, i can't use gnu fortran to compile the
>>> application i want (http://www.cpmd.org/), because it needs the 'Cray
>>> Pointer' extension to Fortran 77 for dynamical memory management.
>>> According
>>> to
>>> http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-linux.html
>>> doesn't handle the above extension. So I have to use Intel's
>>> compiler, that
>>> is free of charge, but not open source :-( .
>>>
>>
>> The latest GNU gFortran has the extensions you need and will produce a
>> 64-bit native executable optimised for an AMD processor, rather than
>> one optimised for an inferior brand of 32-bit processor.
>>
>> You should *never* install *any* software which does not come with
>> source code -- you don't know where it's been. If the software vendor
>> isn't prepared to show you the source code, that's a clear sign that
>> there is something in there that they don't want you to see.
>>
>> You wouldn't buy a cake that didn't have a list of ingredients on the
>> box, would you?
>
> I drink a whole lot o' booze, and that never has an ingredients list
>
>
Hmmm... Well, here in the US the alcohol per cent by volume is listed,
but, yes, the other ingredients, eg.: hops, barley, wheat, etc., are not.
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