Re: Support for interdependency tracking between Fortan 90 modules

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Thursday 28 July 2011, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Howdy,
>
Hi Nicolai.

> Sorry, I broke VPATH builds for Fortran, see new diff attached which
> supersedes the previous one.
> 
> Please keep in mind, that my patches are for discussion only they're by
> far not ready to be included into 'official' automake...
> If this is the wrong mailinglist for this discussion, just tell me, I'll
> stop spamming and move forward to the "right" one.
>
This is the right mailing list, and the patches you're proposing are
very welcome and likely to be met with interest.  Unfortunately, my
knowledge of fortran is very limited, so I won't be able to comment on
them.  But I think that the Automake maintainer Ralf Wildenhues has
a good knowledge of the subject, so be patient and wait for him to chime
in (unfortunately, at present he doesn't have much time to work on
automake, so you might have to wait a few days).

> Do you remember the example project 'nasty_f90' from my previous post,
> I've uploaded the 'make dist' tarball to
> ftp://ftp.zmaw.de/outgoing/stange/nasty_f90-0.1.tar.gz so you can just
> give it a try without further action and see what happens in real life.
> 
> I've read (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/contribute.html), that
> I'll also have to sign some formal "assignment form". Can you send it to
> me, so I can sign it in advance and we can eventually speed up things
> later on?
>
You'll have to contact the FSF and ask them to send the paperwork to you.
More details about this off-list.

> Best,
> 
> Nicolai
> 
 
Thanks,
  Stefano