I recently bought the NR for my
Mac OS 10.2.
I have a problem with the format of the
files. When i try to compile any subroutine
using g77 -c file.for i got this message:
Line too long as of (?) [info -f g77 M LEX]
I edit the source file with Emacs for
Mac OS X and the code appears in a single
line where the end of line turned into ^M.
I fixed by hand this with one of the subroutines,
deleting the ^M and pressing return to break
the lines and then i can compile the subroutine.
Does anyone know why i cannot compile the
NR for Mac in my Mac ?
The Mac OS X as you probably know is a
UNIX based system but the source
code of the NR for Mac don't look like files
in UNIX format since they cannot be read
by emacs.

thanks

Javier,

Well, I have to first say up front that I am not a Mac person. But it looks to me as if your compiler is expecting a different end-of-line (EOL) convention than that in which the NR files are supplied.

The Mac versions of NR are supplied with the standard old Mac convention of ^M for end of line.

If you have Perl on your machine, you might download and try the EOL conversion script located at
http://www.nr.com/utils/flip.pl
This can be used to change the EOL convention of a text file from or to any of Windows (^J^M), Mac (^M), and Unix (^J). One of them ought to be right!

Cheers,
Bill P

hi Bill,

That is the reason
I asked in a previous thread,
before buying the NR for Mac,
if they were compatible with
the new Mac OS X. Well, obviously they
are not compatible. I have been converting
some subroutines and i can compile then.

I think you should provide a Mac OS X version
of your NR or say explicitely in your web page
that the current Mac version is not
Mac OS X compatible.
Mac OS X is a BSD UNIX
based system. I can compile with no
problems many programs with my
Linux Makefiles. It should be simple for you
to provide a Mac OS X compatible version.

Javier Ferrandis

Javier,

Just get the UNIX or linux version of whatever source code you receive. Apple has seen the light (thank you Steve Jobs!) that bsd unix with a MacOS environment built on top is the ultimate OS. The old conventions are just disappearing. If you need other unix.linux software for OSX, check out the fink project:

http://fink.sourceforge.net

John