Mac OS X, anyone?

[Matt Newville <newville@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Dear Feffers,

Has anyone here tried Feff7 or Feff8 with Mac OS X? I heard
recently from Paul Fons <fons@etl.go.jp> in Tsukuba that he was
beta-testing the Absoft Fortran compiler for OS X, and had some
difficulty with Feff810:

  > I found that besjn was being passed values less than
  > zero - e.g. there are floating point problems somewhere
  > (complex quantities?).

I'm concerned his may be due to the PAD library getting signs
wrong.  I do know that Feff800 compiled and ran test cased with
Absoft Fortran on Mac OS 9, but OS X is really quite different
and this is a beta-compiler. That is, there are lots of
possibilities for mistaken code generation and for previoulsy
benign bugs to show up.

I'm hoping Paul can get this licked soon, as he's eager to get
Ifeffit working under OS X, and I know several people who would
like to be able to use Feff/Ifeffit on a Mac environment.

Anyway, anyone else tried OS X yet?

Thanks,

--Matt