On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am trying to compile a program which was written in C. (The Makefile >> is shown below.) However, when I run the command 'make', I get the >> following error: >> >> $ make >> ... -L./f2c -lf2c -lm >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf2c >> ... > > The f2c library is[*] part of the GNU Fortran runtime support. Are some of > your source files written in Fortran? If not, then you don't need the f2c > lib; just edit it out of the linking step. > > If you do have some Fortran code lurking in there, then you will need the > f2c library. It should be included with GNU Fortran, so there may be a > problem with the linker options that's preventing ld from finding the > library. > > [*] Or was--it's been ten years since I used it. Thanks to all. I do have # rpm -q compat-libf2c-34 compat-libf2c-34-3.4.6-9.i386 # Moreover, 'locate libf2c' returns nothing. I do not know whether the program was written in Fortran or not, as I am not its author. You can find the source at the following address: http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/other_software/bpmpd_c.tar.gz Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines