Re: f2c support

[Evgeniy Dushistov]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:25:01PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 21-Aug-2007, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote:
> 
> | I try to compile last cvs snapshot "--with-f2c",
> | but configure says that libf2c doesn't exists, and after long build,
> | link failed.
> | 
> | I have libf2c and f2c on my system, to force it compile I have to made such 
> changes:
> | ---
> | Index: configure.in
> | ...
> | Index: liboctave/f2c-main.c
> | ...
> | As you can see, linking with libf2c require MAIN__ definition, so 
> | simple check "AC_CHECK_LIB(f2c..." failed, also to successfully link octave 
> with libf2c
> | somewhere in octave should exist function "MAIN__".
> |
> | May be someone from maintainers can assist me in integrating some kind of 
> such changes 
> | into mainline, so in future I can build octave without problems?
> 
> What kind of system do you have that doesn't have some kind of Fortran
> compiler (g77?, gfortran?).
> 
It is oridnary Linux system, it just have no installed by default
Fortran compiler, but have f2c and libf2c.

-- 
/Evgeniy