Bug#449433: roottalk links
I wrote:
> Prompted by a couple emails [1] to the ROOT devel list, I'm curious as
> to why no package in Sid seems to provide a libgfortran.so symlink
> [without the soversion] nor libgfortranbegin.a directly in /usr/lib.
> This makes it difficult to link a program with the main routine written
> in FORTRAN using g++ or gcc as the driver for ld. Currently one needs
> to add -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2 to the linking command before
> supplying -lgfortran -lgfortranbegin .
>
> [1] I'll supply a link to the thread when it becomes available on the
> web archive of roottalk.
And here are the promised links to the relevant threads:
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk07/1147.html
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk07/1150.html
In the meantime, ROOT upstream has decided in svn trunk [2] to utilize
gfortran -print-file-name=libgfortran.so
gfortran -print-file-name=libgfortranbegin.a
to get the paths to gfortran libraries, which I've verified should do
The Right Thing (TM) on a Sid system. So this bug is now more academic
(at least from the point of view of ROOT) than a real problem -- feel
free to close if you wish, or not.
[2]
http://root.cern.ch/viewcvs/trunk/config/Makefile.linux?r1=20172&r2=20658
best regards,
--
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department
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