I have SUSE 10.0 installed and it came with an gcc compiler version 4.0.2 (prerelease) There seems to be no fortran support, or rather if I try to compile somethign I get > gcc: installation problem, > cannot exec 'f951': No such file or directory I've been trying to compile gcc 4.1.0 myself but when I get to the part where it's trying to compile the fortran code it gets the following error: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/turekg/tmp/gcc-4.1.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgfortran' /bin/sh ../.././libgfortran/mk-kinds-h.sh '/home/turekg/tmp/gcc-4.1.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/gfortran -B/home/turekg/tmp/gcc-4.1.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -I . -Wall -fno-repack-arrays -fno-underscoring ' > kinds.h || rm kinds.h ../.././libgfortran/mk-kinds-h.sh: Unknown type grep '^#' < kinds.h > kinds.inc /bin/sh: kinds.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [kinds.inc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/turekg/tmp/gcc-4.1.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgfortran' make[1]: *** [all-target-libgfortran] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/turekg/tmp/gcc-4.1.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 I am at a total loss... gaby -- *************************************************************** ** Gabriella Turek g.turek@xxxxxxxxxx ** ** National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ** ** PO Box 8602 Christchurch New Zealand +64-3-348-8987x3724 ** ***************************************************************