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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:39:12 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PGI Fortran Compiler seems to be courios under FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20001025113912.U28123@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251943010.47561-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:45:04PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251943010.47561-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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I would discuss this with the people at PGI, obviously if there software
'almost' runs on FreeBSD and when compiled under Linux it _does_ run
they're very close to supporting FreeBSD under emulation.

We had some success with the Lahey people, perhaps you ought to contact
PGI about this?

* O. Hartmann <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> [001025 10:44] wrote:
> 
> Dear Sirs.
> A couple of weeks ago I started testing Fortran 90 compilers
> for FreeBSD und Linux emulation. I regret that the support of
> FreeBSD for Fortran 90 compilers is that bad!
> 
> Well, I tested Fujitsu/Siemens Lahey, NAGWare and Portland Group.
> Fujitsu Lahey Fortran 95 Express V5.5 for Linux works fine under
> FreeBSD 4.1.1-Stable, no problems at all but the debugger has its problems. 
> NAGWare offers a 'native' FreeBSD compiler, but they want a customer to
> pay about 20 Pounds and that is much compared to free downloads for Linux,
> Solaris and other OS. I got the Linux version and I'm not very satisfied
> about the code it generates and I doubt that the FreeBSD native F95 compiler
> will be much better. But this compiler works also under Linux Emulation.
> 
> Well, many devolopers, many scientists and especially our scientists want 
> Portland Group compiler. So I concentrated my doings on this compiler for
> a while, but without success. I can install the newest stuff from Portland
> Group, generate a trial evaluation key and I can compile any kind of source
> code, but all produced images are crashing immediately after calling them.
> Then I installed the Portland Compiler testsuite on Linux, compiled the same
> stuff on a Linux box and then transferred the linked image onto our FreeBSD
> box and started it there - with great success! It worked fine, did all
> caculations ...
> 
> We are very interested in PGI compilers and therefor I'm looking for a way to
> run this great compiler suite on our FreeBSD infrastructure. It seems courios
> to me that the images of a Linux-box compiled program will work on both FreeBSD
> and Linux and the image produced under Linux Emulation on a FreeBSD box is
> crashing (while compilation works, but no one knows what's going on ..).
> 
> Does anyone has any idea or is someone out there who has already installed
> the PGI compilers (especially PGF90) on FreeBSD?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> O. Hartmann
> 
> -
> MfG 
> O. Hartmann
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> -
> MfG 
> O. Hartmann
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> 
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> FAX: +496131/3923532
> 
> 
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