[Tfug] Fedora vrs. RHEL

[Joshua Bernstein]

First of all PGI is way fast...

Secondly GNU have released a g95 compilier that seems to provide more 
support for obscure structures and is quite a bit faster then the older 
g77. It may be worth a shot.

-Josh



On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Jim Secan wrote:

> At 12:10 PM 10/18/04 -0700, you wrote:
>> In my experience, software for RHEL will run on Fedora usually without
>> any issues. You may have to make an extra symlink for a library, or
>> install an extra RPM on Fedora to get it up to snuff with what that
>> program is. Also, in one case I had to lie to an install script about
>> the output of uname -a to get the software installed... What compiler
>> are you using? If its PGI I can tell you it runs fine on Fedora...
>
> Lahey.  I'd like to use g77 but I've a ton of code that uses the (DEC)
> standard structure and record declarations for defining new data types.
> Unfortunately, g77 and many other commercial Fortran compilers can't 
> handle
> these.  I just found a note on the comp.lang.fortran group from 
> someone who
> was running Lahey on Fedora.  I'll probably give it a try.
>
> Thanks.
> Jim
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