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[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : vax 7.3P: /mit/nag/vaxlib/libnag13.a]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Thu Nov 14 09:08:49 1991

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 09:08:51 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: mubbens@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, kevles@Athena.MIT.EDU, timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu

System name:		w20-575-90 (NOTE: bug occured on a DEC3100 in bld.37)
				   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Using a NAG routine in a C program on a DEC3100 station. I tried:
> cc filename /mit/nag/vaxlib/libnag13.a -lF77 -lI77 -lU77 -lm

> What's wrong:
> Computer cannot find the NAG routines. I got the message:
> Archive: /mit/nag/vaxlib/libnag13.a has no table of contents (not searched)
>          add one with 'rs rs'
> Undefined: c05pbf_ (and a few other NAG files were liste as well.)

Sure, this is the type of error you get when you try to link with *vax*
libraries on a *DECstation*.  You should have linked with
decmipslib/libnag13.a, not vaxlib/libnag13.a.  If the stock answer is
confusing on this point, it should be updated.

> I was in contact with consultant timkwan@COPILOT.MIT.EDU. He suggested
> that the nag libraries on the DEC have not been updated.
> Consultant kevles@caliban.mit.edu suggested that differences in the
> fortran compiler might be responsible.

Please check for obvious problems first before making speculations on
the nature of compiler differences or suggesting some vague negligence
on the part of the maintainers of numerical software.

-Calvin

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