#MacOSX

@mcastel I haven't done the upgrade yet, but there is a new version of Xcode for Snow Leopard. Where does the Fortran compiler come from, BTW?

Ok, issue solved with Xcode upgrade...

@jwa I can be wrong, but I think is part of the gcc compiler suite... (I still use g77 for compatibility with old code, moreover)

@mcastel Yes, g77 sounds like GNU compilers... Well, if you have a fast system, you can always use e.g. MacPorts to keep up-to-date with the latest GNU package, at the moment gcc45 (it compiles the package from the sources taking a while).

@jwa thanks. I still am a bit confused about MacPorts and Fink, to tell the truth: I realize that both project are useful for accessing unix program on mac os, but I do not understand which ones I should prefer, and why...

@mcastel Maybe I'm not the right person to answer this, being a committer in MacPorts. It is, however, according to knowledgeable sources (Jordan Hubbard, who before going to Apple was one of the main developers of FreeBSD), after Webkit the most successful open source project of Apple.