[R] OT: Compiling EMMIX

[Marc R. Feldesman]

Sorry for the off-topic post, but there is such a wealth of knowledge here 
that I thought someone might have suggestions.

Geoff MacLachlan and David Peel have a program - EMMIX - available for 
mixture modelling.  It is only available as FORTRAN source code and is 
"downloadable" from Geoff's site.  The code is reputed to run on Unix 
machines and is compilable according to instructions posted on the web site 
simply as:

f77 -o emmix emmix.f

I've downloaded the program onto my Linux (RedHat 7.3) box and tried to 
compile it.  I get hundreds of errors that result in f77 "giving up" in 
"confusion".  I have no idea whether the f77 that comes with RH Linux is 
the same as what we have on our "mainframe" (running Sun 0S 5.8), but I get 
the same cascade of errors on the big box as on my Linux workstation.

I emailed Geoff about this, but he's referred my question on to David 
Peel.  While I wait for David's answer, let me ask two questions of this group:

1)  has anyone here successfully compiled EMMIX from the source code 
supplied on MacLachlan's site?

2) is the f77 that comes with RH Linux the same as or significantly 
different from that on Unix boxes?

Thanks for your help.


Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
Professor and Chairman Emeritus
Anthropology Department - Portland State University
email:  feldesmanm at pdx.edu
email:  feldesman at attglobal.net
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