Forttran 77

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Wed Apr 8 17:21:48 UTC 2009


Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:52:52AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>   
>>> None of the files in the ccache RPM appear to be related to Fortran in
>>> any way.
>>>   
>>>       
>> ok, I guess.  It says: ""compiler cache" as a general term(?) and then
>> refers to C/C++ as an example?  Guess I am reading into it too deeply.
>>     
>
> It is called C Cache for a reason.  Fortran sources usually aren't
> preprocessed, on the other side the Fortran compiler has to load all needed
> modules (*.mod) and Fortran INCLUDEs, unlike C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++ the
> preprocessed source in Fortran isn't necessarily self-contained translation
> unit, so the way ccache works doesn't work with Fortran.
>
>   
>> In Netbeans, I tried to add the full pathname of gfortran to the Fortran
>> input-box in the original "base", but it refused to accept it. I suppose  
>> that
>> adding a fortran link to /usr/lib/ccache might work, but instead I decided
>> to create a new "base" with the /usr/bin pathname, and it worked.   
>>     
>
> I'd say Netbeans shouldn't rely on /usr/lib/ccache at all, after all,
> ccache is purely optional (and often very much broken) package; ccache is the
> first thing I uninstall on all my boxes if it happens to be installed by
> default.
>
> 	Jakub
>   
Ok, makes sense to me!
Thanks for the advice!

Dan




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