I'm currently trying to build libhdf4 on armel with gfortran. colin@muscat:~$ gfortran --version GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4) One of the test programs contains the statement: print *, 'Try one of "Skip", "Test", "Verbosity" or "Cleanup"' which fails to compile giving: gfortran -g -O2 -c fortestF.f fortestF.f:193.20: print *, 'Try one of "Skip", "Test", "Verbosity" or "Cleanup" 1 Error: Unterminated character constant beginning at (1) If I remove the double quote characters from inside the string then it compiles ok. Is this a compiler error/problem? A configuration problem? or something else? regards, Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1903 236872 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared...