vif (vintage fortran compiler) VIF is an 'early FORTRAN' dialect, encompassing a large subset of FORTRAN II/IV and FORTRAN 66/77. VIF is a front end using a gcc compatible C99 compiler as back end. VIF uses gcc extensions to C, and also gcc's libquadmath. If you want to run the compiler's self-test suite, do this: 1. Run vif.SlackBuild with no option, install the resulting package. 2. Run vif.SlackBuild a second time, with CHECK=yes in the environment. 3. Install the newly-built package. The results of 'make check' will be in /usr/doc/vif-$VERSION/make_check.log This is required because the self-test only knows how to test the installed vif on the system.