[Numpy-discussion] how do I configure with gfortran

[Andrew Jaffe]

This is slightly off-topic, but probably of interest to anyone reading 
this thread:

Is there any reason why we don't use --fcompiler=gfortran as an alias 
for --fcompiler=gfortran (and --fcompiler=g77 as an alias for 
--fcompiler=gnu, for that matter)?

Those seem to me to be much more mnemonic names...

Andrew



Robert Kern wrote:
> Christopher Hanley wrote:
>> I have found that setting my F77 environment variable to gfortran is 
>> also sufficient.
>>
>>  > setenv F77 gfortran
>>  > python setup.py install
> 
> That might work okay for building scipy and other packages that only actually
> have FORTRAN-77 code; however, I suspect that Matthew is trying to build
> something with Fortran 90+.