Not being able to compile a simple code

[g3v]

hello everyone!

I installed IFC under Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.22-10mdk, im fairly new to the linux platform,
so after installing IFC i tried to run a test file like everyone else called: hello.f

PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
print *,'Hello World!'
END PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD

but for my surprise this is what i get after runing this code

[root@localhost tmp]# ifort hello.f
fortcom: Error: Illegal character in statement label field

fortcom: Error: Illegal character in statement label field
fortcom: Error: Illegal character in statement label field
fortcom: Error: Illegal character in statement label field
fortcom: Error: Illegal character in statement label field
fortcom: Error: First statement in file must not be continued
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Illegal character in statement label field

print *,'Hello World!'
^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Illegal character in statement label field
print *,'Hello World!'
.^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Illegal character in statement label field
print *,'Hello World!'
..^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Illegal character in statement label field
print *,'Hello World!'
...^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Illegal character in statement label field
print *,'Hello World!'
....^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 1: Syntax error, found END-OF-STATEMENT when expecting one of: ( : % . = =>
PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
...................^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 3: Illegal character in statement label field
END PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 3: Illegal character in statement label field
END PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
.^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 3: Illegal character in statement label field
END PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
..^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 3: Illegal character in statement label field

END PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
....^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 1: This is an invalid statement; an END [PROGRAM] statement is required.
PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
......^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 1: This name does not match the unit name. [MHELLO_WORLD]
PROGRAM HELLO_WORLD
......^
fortcom: Error: hello.f, line 2: Syntax error, found '*' when expecting one of: ; BLOCK BLOCKDATA PROGRAM TYPE COMPLEX BYTE CHARACTER ...
print *,'Hello World!'
......^
fortcom: Severe: hello.f, line 2: Could not recover from previous syntax error
print *,'Hello World!'
......^
compilation aborted for hello.f (code 1)

What could be the problem? i did install IFC as instructed and everything seemed to go fine.

Please help.

Yaron

Message Edited by g3v on 03-21-2004 04:54 AM

[TimP]

You've asked the compiler to use fixed format, when your file is free format. The simplest way to fix it is to change from .f to .f90 file suffix.