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- From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
- Subject: Re: IDO required for FTN?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.204512.19082@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division
- References: <BrusIJ.23z@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:45:12 GMT
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- In article <BrusIJ.23z@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
- |> I *think* I know the answer to this already, but want to make certain.
- |> Someone in our group is considering buying an R4000 Indigo. He does
- |> all his work in Fortran, and has no interest in C (or dbx or the other
- |> stuff that comes with IDO, for that matter). Considering the prices ...
- |>
- |> Unit price Support
- |> ---------- -------
- |> SC4-FTN-3.5 $1553 $188 (All prices
- |> SC4-IDO-4.1 $1560 $1124 CDN$ list)
- |>
- |> ... he'd prefer to buy FTN but not IDO. Our telesales guy, in fact,
- |> claims IDO isn't needed for FTN. However, I suspect he's wrong, in
- |> view of the fact that, for example, /usr/bin/f77 is simply a symlink
- |> to /usr/lib/driver, and /usr/lib/driver comes with IDO, not FTN (at
- |> least that's what inst's "files" option says). As well, /usr/bin/ld
- |> comes with IDO but not FTN.
- |>
- |> So, unless some necessary subset of the IDO CD's files (specifically,
- |> the dev.cmplrs_sw.* stuff, I'd guess) is duplicated on the FTN CD (and
- |> magically hidden so that inst won't tell me about it), it looks as if
- |> one *has* to have IDO in order to do anything useful with FTN. Right?
- |>
- |> And, assuming this is right, where is this documented? Shouldn't the
- |> sales people be told not to put together a quote for a system with FTN
- |> but no IDO? (Except, of course, for customers who already have IDO but
- |> not FTN, and plan to pirate IDO from their other system(s). :-)
- |>
-
- The IRIS Development Option (IDO) (SC4-IDO-4.1) is the required base for
- ALL SGI compilers. In addition to the C compilers (ANSI and Classic),
- dbx/edge, prof, and pixie, IDO includes the compiler back-ends (optimizers
- and assemblers), and the base libraries which most other language system
- libraries depend. Thus Fortran, Pascal, C++, and Ada all require IDO for
- IRIX 4.0.1 and later releases. As you noted, unless your colleague has IDO,
- he will need to purchase IDO to use Fortran.
-
- This information is all documented in the SGI price book that your sales
- folk should be familiar with. (I have it sitting here in front of me as I
- type.)
-
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