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    Question gfortran doesnt work

    Hey guys,

    i trying to set up a program for seismic wave propagation called SPECFEM. For adjusting the settings the program requires a fortran compiler.

    As far as i can tell from the synaptic package manager a fortran 95 compiler is installed on my system.

    When i start the file which sets up the system setting for the program the terminal tells me that fortran doesnt work. ("checking whether the Fortran compiler works... no")

    When i typ "gfortran" i get "fatal error: no input files".

    How can i get the compiler running?


    Best regards,

    Robin

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    Code:
    apt-cache search fortran
    Shows there is gfortran4.4 (compatible with FORTRAN95), 4.5, 4.6, 4.7. Perhaps you have a newer version that is not compatible with FORTRAN95

    Code:
    apt-cache policy gfortran
    to determine what you have currently installed.
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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    Wow, FORTRAN! That takes me back to my mis-spent youth!

    I just had to give this a try. All I did was follow the "Hello World" example posted here. It worked fine for me. Give it a try and let us know how it turns out.

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    I'm not surprised
    Code:
    gfortan
    Will not work because you have not told it what to compile. Take a look here
    http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranGettingStarted

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    Look at this thread

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2107170

    where you can find typical command lines to compile and or link scientific fortran programs.

    Obviously fortran refuses to die

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    hey guys,

    thank you for your quick replies. Unfortunately i still couldn't get gfortran going so i made a short screencast that way you get a better idea about what is going on. Its to big to be uploaded here so i put it on youtube, i hope thats allowed here.

    http://youtu.be/DsycqFz_P6A

    Thank you in advance.


    Best regards.

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    First we need to check if gfortran works at all.

    Make a file named prtime.f of the small fortran source code in this link.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12468573&postcount=13

    Try to compile and link it with the following command
    Code:
     gfortran -o prtime prtime.f
    That works for me in Ubuntu 12.04. It creates the executable file prtime, that you can run with the command
    Code:
    ./prtime
    (and it prints the current time to terminal and to the file printed-time.txt).

    Does this work for you?

    If yes, gfortran works. If no you have to repair/reinstall gfortran.
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    Next we can try to make it work with your particular program package.

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    I suggest that you search for help at the geodynamics.org web site.Maybe you can find someone to help you at its community via this link. Otherwise you need help by someone with experience teaching how to compile and link software packages using makefiles etc and maybe even debuggers.

    http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/community

    Anyway, you need to set up the environment, and to perform all the steps successfully according to the manual

    manual_SPECFEM3D.pdf chapter 2.

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    Re: gfortran doesnt work

    Quote Originally Posted by Robinho45 View Post
    hey guys,

    thank you for your quick replies. Unfortunately i still couldn't get gfortran going so i made a short screencast that way you get a better idea about what is going on. Its to big to be uploaded here so i put it on youtube, i hope thats allowed here.

    http://youtu.be/DsycqFz_P6A

    Thank you in advance.


    Best regards.
    That was a good idea. Notice that in the installation instructions, in the paragraph immediately before the `./configure` command you copied-and-pasted, it says:

    "This script will attempt to guess the appropriate configuration values for your system. However, at a minimum, it is recommended that you explicitly specify the appropriate command names for your Fortran compiler and MPI package"

    Your FORTRAN compiler isn't `ifort`, it's `gfortran`. Also, you'll want to check if you have the `mpi-default-dev` package installed (that's where `mpif90` comes from).

    FWIW, this just worked for me:

    Code:
    ./configure FC=gfortran MPIFC=mpif90
    Finally, as sudodus said, you should read the rest of the instructions again and make sure you have followed all of the other recommended steps.

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