[petsc-dev] Fortran macOS Linkage Warning

[Satish Balay]

Here is the compile command and the warning:

>>>>>>
===== Checking linker
Executing: gfortran -c -o /var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers/conftest.o -I/var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers   /var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers/conftest.F90 
Successful compile:
Source:
      function foo(a)
      real:: a,x,bar
      common /xx/ x
      x=a
      foo = bar(x)
      end
Executing: gcc  -o /var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers/libconftest.dylib  -dynamiclib -single_module -undefined dynamic_lookup -multiply_defined suppress  /var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers/conftest.o 
Possible ERROR while running linker:
stderr:
ld: warning: object file (/var/folders/9w/7dlszmmn6q1gd5yf3r9n79bc0000gn/T/petsc-dk9aiv7x/config.setCompilers/conftest.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
          Accepted FC PIC code without compiler flag
          =============================================================================================
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Its likely due to the way brew built gfortran. You can try compiling a simple test code and see if you can reproduce this warning.

There is a related issue at:

https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/21644

Satish


On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Jacob Faibussowitsch wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I’ve been getting these warnings for weeks, at first I figured it was due to gfortran brew package not being updated for Big Sur, but since it has persisted through a few gfortran brew updates I’m thinking it may be petsc related. This is on clean build on master.
> 
> ld: warning: object file (master-arch-darwin-c-debug/obj/sys/classes/bag/f2003-src/fsrc/bagenum.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
> ld: warning: object file (master-arch-darwin-c-debug/obj/sys/f90-src/fsrc/f90_fwrap.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
> ld: warning: object file (master-arch-darwin-c-debug/obj/sys/objects/f2003-src/fsrc/optionenum.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
> ld: warning: object file (master-arch-darwin-c-debug/obj/sys/fsrc/somefort.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
> ld: warning: object file (master-arch-darwin-c-debug/obj/sys/f90-mod/petscsysmod.o) was built for newer macOS version (11.2) than being linked (11.0)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jacob Faibussowitsch
> (Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)
> Cell: (312) 694-3391
>