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authorStephen McDowell <svenevs@users.noreply.github.com>2021-09-10 12:11:26 -0700
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[docs] document official gfortran macOS precompiled binaries (#25818)
* document official gfortran macOS precompiled binaries * compile without -vvv ;) {squash this}
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@@ -642,8 +642,9 @@ Fortran.
#. Run ``spack compiler find`` to locate Clang.
#. There are different ways to get ``gfortran`` on macOS. For example, you can
- install GCC with Spack (``spack install gcc``) or with Homebrew
- (``brew install gcc``).
+ install GCC with Spack (``spack install gcc``), with Homebrew (``brew install
+ gcc``), or from a `DMG installer
+ <https://github.com/fxcoudert/gfortran-for-macOS/releases>`_.
#. The only thing left to do is to edit ``~/.spack/darwin/compilers.yaml`` to provide
the path to ``gfortran``:
@@ -664,7 +665,8 @@ Fortran.
If you used Spack to install GCC, you can get the installation prefix by
``spack location -i gcc`` (this will only work if you have a single version
of GCC installed). Whereas for Homebrew, GCC is installed in
- ``/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/x.y.z``.
+ ``/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/x.y.z``. With the DMG installer, the correct path
+ will be ``/usr/local/gfortran``.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compiler Verification