fOptions no longer builds: Fortran error

[Yohan Chalabi]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks to point this out.

HQNORM is not declared as a double precision function in HALTON and might be implicitly declared as single precision.

I will upload a patch later today and see if it works.

Regards,
Yohan


On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> Christophe,
> 
> Would you be able to help in this Fortran-related build failure for fOptions?
> The compiler now complains that LowDiscrepancy has conflicting types, and
> with my limited Fortran skills I see no fix -- the declarations seem fine to
> me.
> 
> The URL below has more detail, and I'd be happy to fill in more details.
> 
> Thanks,  Dirk
> 
> On 28 May 2011 at 16:58, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | 
> | Hi all,
> | 
> | During a routine rebuild of the Debian archive, it was noticed that
> | fOptions no longer builds (http://bugs.debian.org/628314) as the Fortran
> | compiler (now gfortan-4.6) seems pickier:
> | 
> | > make[1]: Entering directory `/build/user-foptions_2110.78-1-amd64-xexJr_/foptions-2110.78/src'
> | > gfortran   -fpic  -O3 -pipe  -g -c 085A-LowDiscrepancy.f -o 085A-LowDiscrepancy.o
> | > 085A-LowDiscrepancy.f:181.32:
> | > 
> | >                QN(I, J) = HQNORM(QUASI(J))                              
> | >                                 1
> | > Error: Return type mismatch of function 'hqnorm' at (1) (REAL(4)/REAL(8))
> | > make[1]: *** [085A-LowDiscrepancy.o] Error 1
> | 
> | I do not write Fortran so would not know how to fix this. Any RMetrics export
> | who can fix this?
> | 
> | Dirk
> | 
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