fOptions no longer builds: Fortran error

[Yohan Chalabi]

Hi Christophe,

Dirk is talking about 085A-LowDiscrepancy.f in fOptions and not the one that is in randtoolbox.

I commited few minutes ago a patch in fOptions that fix the implicit declaration.



Regards,
Yohan


On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Christophe Dutang wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Actually, HQNORM (at least in the latest R forge version, see https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/randtoolbox/src/LowDiscrepancy.f?view=markup&revision=5094&root=rmetrics ) is declared as 
> 
> C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>       DOUBLE PRECISION FUNCTION HQNORM(P)
> 
> 
> So it should be ok. I spent a lot of time few weeks ago to remove any implicit type declaration, so I'm pretty sure there aren't any since the code passes 
> gfortran -c -fsyntax-only -fimplicit-none LowDiscrepancy.f 
> 
> I don't know what to do more!
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 2011/6/7 Yohan Chalabi <chalabi at phys.ethz.ch>
> 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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