Re: [SPAM] Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> 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.

IFort 9.1

Ingredients:
libm.so.6
libpthread.so.0
libgcc_s.so.1
libc.so.6
ld-linux.so.2
ELF 32-bit LSB executable (70% by volume)