Installing XL Fortran V10.1 to a single non-default location

If you want to try out a new update of the compiler before you remove the existing one from the system, you must install the new update to a non-default location. After you have verified that you want to use the new update, you will probably want to install it in the default location by performing the following tasks:

  1. Remove the new update from the non-default location.
  2. Remove the previous update from the default location.
  3. Install the new update to the default location.
Note:
If you use the xlf_install utility to install the new update to the default location, it will remove the previous update for you.

You cannot us the xlf_install utility if you want to install XL Fortran V10.1 in a non-default location. The xlf_install utility installs XL Fortran V10.1 in the /opt/ibmcmp/ (default) directory.

You must install XL Fortran V10.1 in a non-default location in order to meet both of the following criteria:

If your current working directory contains all of the packages for XL Fortran V10.1 and no other RPM packages, you can use the following command to install all XL Fortran V10.1 packages to a single non-default directory:

   rpm -ivh *.rpm --prefix installation_path
Note:
When configuring the relocated compiler, use the xlf_configure utility to configure the compiler. Do not use the new_install utility.