[Wien] fortran compiler for linux on ppc64

[TPCwien at mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk]

> 
> We have tried g95 more than a year ago anditwas not ok. I remember another 
> user had tried it a few month ago (3-4), also unsucsesfully.

Quite a lot of work has been done on g95 since 3 months ago.  See 
www.g95.org for an idea of the rate of bugfixing on this project.  Again, 
I would urge Wien users to communicate g95 problems to Andy Vaught instead 
of going to another compiler.  OSS development relies on user feedback! 
I'd be prepared to investigate myself but as I understand it, my 
subscription to Wien95 does not cover the upgrade to the new apw+lo? code.  
I'm not currently involved in any electronic structure calculation work and 
cannot justify the resubscription cost just to test compiler problems.

Regards
Tom.

CCed: Andy Vaught (nb: this discussion is from the Wien mailing list, 
		   http://www.wien2k.at/reg_user/mailing_list/) 

> > > 
> > > Hallo,
> > > 
> > >   has anyone experience with compiling the wien codes under linux (ubuntu) 
> > > on a power-pc? Apparently there are some issues with g95 even on PC's. Are 
> > 
> > Has anybody communicated these 'issues' to Andy Vaught 
> > (andyv at firstinter.net)?  I'm sure he would appreciate it if they did.  I 
> > cannot find any recent references to Wien on the G95 website commentary.  
> > I also believe that the optimised performance of G95 has improved recently 
> > with the use of more recent gcc front ends.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Tom

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