Re: generating shared libraries with any non-gcc fortran compiler??

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 02/24/2011 04:40 AM, Jürgen Reuter wrote:
> Dear libtool team,
> this is not a bug report, but a question: has anybody managed to generate 
> shared libraries on
> a MAC OS X with a Fortran 95/03 compiler other than gfortran? If so, how? For 
> the two test cases
> of NAG (nagfor) and PGI (pgf95) I always get the report from the AC_PROG_FC 
> macro that
> checking whether the nagfor linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... no
> or
> checking whether the nagfor linker (nagfor) supports shared libraries... no
> Any ideas? Did anybody encounter that problem yet?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Cheers,
>         Juergen Reuter

No support for these compilers has been added to libtool yet for Mac OS X.

nagfor looks like it needs -PIC to produce position independent code, 
and uses gcc for linking?

I'll look at the PGI documentation too.

If I come up with patches, will you be able to test for me?

Thanks,
Peter