fOptions no longer builds: Fortran error

[Yohan Chalabi]

On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> On 7 June 2011 at 18:33, Yohan Chalabi wrote:
> | 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.
> 
> Thank you!  
> 
> Do you plan to make a new release to update fOptions_2110.78, or should I
> fetch the diffs?
> 

I will upload a new version of fOptions to CRAN.

Yohan

> Dirk 
> 
> 
> | 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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