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Intel Fortran on RH 9

July 22, 2003

Downloaded and installed the new kernel today. Recompiled according to my previous post.

Also installed Intel Fortran Compiler today. Since there is an incompatibility between ifc and the new glibc libraries used by RH9, I followed some suggestions that I found in an Intel forum. It basically comes down to

1. Downloaded glibc-2.2.93-5.i686.rpm from the RH8.0 distribution at a Red Hat FTP mirror.
2. Extracted the old libraries from the rpm with the commands: rpm2cpio glibc-2.2.93-5.i686.rpm | cpio -idv ./lib/i686/libc-2.2.93.so ./lib/i686/libc.so.6 ./lib/libc-2.2.93.so ./lib/libc.so.6 ./lib/libcrypt-2.2.93.so ./lib/libcrypt.so.1 rpm2cpio glibc-2.2.93-5.i686.rpm | cpio -idv ./lib/i686/libpthread-0.10.so ./lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 ./lib/libpthread-0.10.so ./lib/libpthread.so.0
3. Copied the newly created lib directory to the Intel install directory: mkdir /usr/local/intel/old_libs; cp -r ./lib/* /usr/local/intel/old_libs/
4. Edited /usr/local/intel/compiler70/ia32/bin/ifc.cfg to contain: -L/usr/local/intel/old_libs -lc-2.2.93