Opened 11 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#203 closed defect (fixed)

Documentation improvements

Reported by: MatthewWhiting Owned by: MatthewWhiting
Priority: normal Milestone: Release-1.6
Component: Documentation Version: 1.5
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Kevin Buckley suggested a couple of fixes to the documentation.

First, the README text refers to outdated versions of the libraries.

Second, it would be good to have a suggestion in the README and the User's Guide on how to deal with gfortran library difficulties. This should include the -lgfortran example and so on.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by MatthewWhiting

Status: newassigned

The first was fixed in [1292].

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by MatthewWhiting

Perhaps add a note about setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for local installations?

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by MatthewWhiting

Should also add some notes about the way to build with gfortran in a non-standard location (see #212).

Perhaps add these two things to a section in Appendix A on 'Solving common build problems'?

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by MatthewWhiting

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Added a section to Appendix A that details a few of these problems: libraries not being found, non-standard locations for system libraries (such as gfortran and X11), and the -R option.

Note that the last one probably won't be an issue since we are now linking with g++, but will probably leave it there for the time being.

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