Unresolved issues

Oops:

$ gcc -o hello hello.c
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

This rather cryptic message means that “this application” (i.e. gcc) threw an unhandled exception (i.e. an uncaught signal). There can be a million reasons for this, but odds are the problem is simply that gcc failed to create a temporary file. You can confirm this by adding -pipe to the gcc command line; if it works with -pipe but not without, the problem is related to temporary files.

Check your $TMP, $TEMP and $TMPDIR variables. At least one of them must be set and point to an existing directory to which you have write access.

Add the following three lines to your ~/.profile:

export TMPDIR=/tmp
export TEMP=/tmp
export TMP=/tmp

and paste them into all your open terminals so they will take effect immediately.

There is a looong thread about this issue at http://old.nabble.com/Failed-Install-under-XP-td17636207.html.

In order to generate DLLs, libtool needs LDFLAGS=-no-undefined. We need to

1. understand why
2. figure out where to handle it

not an issue with 3.4.5

/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=F77   --mode=compile gfortran  -g -O2 -x f77-cpp-input -c -o getvar.lo getvar.f
libtool: compile:  gfortran -g -O2 -x f77-cpp-input -c getvar.f  -DDLL_EXPORT -o .libs/getvar.o getvar.f:93.65:

      data cend/ ' ' , '.' , '/' , '$' , '#' , '?' , ',' , ';' , '\\' / 
                                                                 1
Warning: initialization string truncated to match variable at (1)
libtool: compile:  gfortran -g -O2 -x f77-cpp-input -c getvar.f -o getvar.o >/dev/null 2>&1

This does not happen on Ubuntu, but in all fairness, we're using a different compiler (or, to be exact a different compiler version: gfortran 4.2.4 on Ubuntu, gfortran 4.4.0 on Windows).