Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

[Kate Hedstrom]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> >On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >
> >>It sounds like there is no perfect solution here, but I think it'd be
> >>better to be consistent with GNU make.
> >>
> >>The GNU Make convention is that FC and FFLAGS are a pair, and F77 and
> >>F77FLAGS are a pair.  By default they have the same meaning, since the
> >>default value of F77 is "$(FC)", and the default value of F77FLAGS is
> >>"$(FFLAGS)".  The default value of FFLAGS is empty; the default value
> >>of FC is "fortran" on VMS, "cf77" on Cray, "xlf" on _IBMR2, "fc" on
> >>Convex, and "f77" otherwise.
> >
> >
> >I agree that consistency with GNU Make is a good thing, but I shudder at
> >the thought of the howls of protest that might arise from all the existing
> >Fortran users.  
> >
> >Moreover, I suspect that consistency with automake (which uses $F77 and
> >$FFLAGS) should take priority over consistency with the implicit rules in
> >GNU Make.
> >
> 
> Absolutely not.  Automake needs to conform to make, so consider it a bug 
> in Automake.

I agree. There have got to be a *lot* more Fortran people using gnu make
than using autoconf/automake.

Kate
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Kate Hedström       Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
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