(Apologies if this is already in there and I just didn't find it.)
Re: Installing under MacOS (or, presumably, any other *nix-based OS)
minus a FORTRAN compiler.
Hi! My MacOS came w/ gcc minus a FORTRAN compiler, so ./configure
crashed when it couldn't find a FORTRAN compiler (a colleague opines
that this is bad configure script design). I went looking and, wanting
minimal work on my part, found the pre-built gfortran libraries @
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran. I downloaded and installed these no
problem (except that being only an intermediate level *nix user, I
wasn't sure where they were installed to), but the configure script, of
course, wasn't able to find them because gfortran isn't in its list of
candidate FORTRAN compilers. Luckily I have that colleague, because he
wisely counseled against trying to edit the configure script in favor
of symbolically linking one of the script's compilers to gfortran; I
chose to link it to g77, resulting in the following command (issued in
gfortran's parent directory, which in my case was /usr/bin/): sudo ln
-s gfortran g77. Then blitz built fine. FWIW,
DG
PS: Use of sudo requires knowledge of superuser's password.