Re: Error installing BLAS

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Dayan Handapangoda wrote:
>     I'm trying to install MPB 1.4.2 in Fedora 6. When I was going to 
> install BLAS, I got an error message saying that 'command not found' 
> when I tried to compile the .f files to produce .o files using f77 
> command. But when I used the command g77 instead of f77, it was 
> compiled. I thought BLAS was successfully installed in my system.

g77 is just the name of the GNU Fortran 77 compiler.  It should be fine.


>  But eventually I got some error messages when I was trying to use 
> ./configure for MPB. I doubt whether this happened because i used g77, 
> instead of f77. What is the difference between the two? Can that be a 
> problem for configuring MPB? Can someone explain me this please...

No, g77 is not a problem.  Probably you installed the libraries into the 
wrong location or something of that sort; read the installation manual 
carefully.  It's impossible for me to give more advice from the 
information you've given.

Regards,
Steven G. Johnson