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Hi Linuxers,

Last weekend I installed SLS .98 on my machine.
I am nearly the opposite of an expert. 
But after a week of trial&error (where I neglected my *real* work)
I have learned a lot and Linux works fine. 
Many thanks to Linus, to the creator of SLS and
all the other spending their time!

With SLS came (on disk c4 I think) a fortran-to-C translator
as a binary (f2c). An it crashed every time, even on a 3 line 
program. 
Since I want to get an expert, I searched for the sources
(it is simple: send subject: send all from f2c/src 
to netlib@research.att.com) , typed *make*
no errors, no warnings, ...but... the resulting binary
crashes again, the same way (segmentation fault). 
So I looked at the README coming with the sources (what an idea):
       ...some systems do not like a redefiniton of malloc()...
       ...in this case, do the following....
I have only a very crude idea what malloc is  (Fortran has not such
things  :-) ) but the point is: this remark applies to Linux.
Follow this remark, make again: all things work o.k. now,
even for some  long and wild numerical routines
I need in my *real* work.
Now my question: Is that an error of my installation/machine
or has really nobody before tested the f2c binary in the SLS 
package? 
                      Meik 

Meik Hellmund
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
Universitaet Leipzig
hellmund@hep.physik.uni-leipzig.dbp.de
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