Re: how do I access f77 libraries on linux (for lapack and blas)?

[Jeff Best]

Aaron,

In message <200412110902.iBB92a4o027785@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>, Aaron 
Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes
> > Just had a quick look - on the Solaris system this symbol is defined in
> > libF77.so. It may mean that you need to download a Fortran run-time
> > library
>
> I suspect that the relevant F77 library is available for Linux and may
> even be installed on one of the machines in our department, I but have
> not been able to locate it.
>
> Is there a Fortran user, especially one who has used lapack on linux,
> who can tell me which library I need and where it is likely to be
> located on a linux system?

I would expect the run time library to be installed in /usr/lib 
alongside libgcc.so, although it might just be a link to a sub-directory 
of /usr/lib/gcc-lib. You should be able to install the library in the 
application tree.

You may find that libg2c.so works.

Hope this helps,
--
Jeff