Re: .F fix to automake.in

[Christian Holm Christensen]

On 21 May 2001 14:46:38 +0200
Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote
concerning ": Re: .F fix to automake.in":
> Excellent.  Gary will probably want to apply your original patch to
> the 1.4p branch.

Ok. Fine by me.  

> Christian> When will you release 1.5?
> 
> Some time in 2001 :)  It's in feature freeze.

Great. 
 
> Christian> Will it be in time for Debian GNU/Linux 2.3 (my GNU/Linux
> Christian> dist of choice), and other GNU/Linux distributions next
> Christian> release?
> 
> When is it scheduled?

Debian will start to freeze thier dist in June [From Debian Weekly News]:  

  According to this, the freeze will start in June.

See also 

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-news-01/msg00017.html

The Debian maintainer of Automake is Kevin <address@hidden>.  You
should contact him if you want a newer Automake in Debian.  

> Christian> Uh, one thing you may want to consider: G77 can be told to
> Christian> expand is "include" (not #include) search paths via the -I
> Christian> option.  So couldn't the compilation of Fortran77 files
> Christian> ending in .f (i.e., not preprocessed code) also use the
> Christian> INCLUDES variable?  I have loads of examples of source
> Christian> files in src including headers from ../include, and I
> Christian> really don't like to do
> 
> Christian>   FFLAGS += $(INCLUDES)
> 
> Is it portable to non GNU Fortran compilers?  Is `include' standard?
> If you answered at least once `no', then it's probably out of the
> scope of the GNU build system.  But I'm no definitive reference.

What I meant was, that at least G77 will use directories passed via
the -I option as additional search paths for Fortran "include"
directives, like 

  C
  C
  C
        PROGRAM BAR 

        include 'foo.inc' 

        ...

At least is says so in the documentation.  I tried also for Digital
Unix's f77, and it seems to work as well.  That is, with a source file
like the above, I did 

  f77 -I../include bar.f -c -o bar.o 

where foo.inc is in ../include.  A similar test on Solaris using f90
and f77 also succeded.  However, I do not know if it works for all 
Fortran77 compilers.  

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