Re: Emacs and GFortran

[Angelo Graziosi]

I do not know if we are speaking of the same thing.

I refer to the possibility to use Emacs like an IDE with GFortran.

I will try to be more clear with this example.

-------------------------------------
$ cat hello.F
      program hello
      implicit none
      write(*,) 'Hello!'
      end
-------------------------------------

In Emacs:

M-x compile
g77 hello.F

----------------- *compilation* ----------------
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "/tmp/" -*-
Compilation started at Mon Oct 30 15:59:21

g77 hello.F
hello.F: In program `hello':
hello.F:3:                                       <===
         write(*,) 'Hello!'
                 ^
Expression at (^) has incorrect data type or rank for its context

Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Mon Oct 30 15:59:28
----------------

Now clicking with mouse-1 (on 'hello.F:3' in '<===') jumps to line 3 so we
can examine where the compilation fails (Image a multifile application
with thousands of line of code).


Now using GFortran


M-x compile
gfortran hello.F

----------------- *compilation* ----------------
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "/tmp/" -*-
Compilation started at Mon Oct 30 16:10:09

gfortran hello.F
 In file hello.F:3

      write(*,) 'Hello!'                                                
             1
Error: Syntax error in WRITE statement at (1)

Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Mon Oct 30 16:10:12
------------------

But we cannot jump to the wrong line clicking with mouse, we only know
that the error occurs at line 3 which we reach manually.


Obviously this happens even if one uses pure F95 code.


   Angelo.


On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > I would ask if there is a way to integrate Emacs with GFortran so that in
> > case of compiler error one can jump to the line wher the error is born.
> 
> > This works with G77, GCC and G++ but not with GFortran.
> 
> Does that mean that GFortran does not use the standard GNU error format?
> That would be unfortunate (and may be better fixed on GFortran's side).
> Could you show us some sample error/warning messages?
> 
> 
>         Stefan
>