Re: f2c obsolete?

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Oct-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On 10/23/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 23-Oct-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| >
| > | Yes. This will break compilation under MSVC, which relies on f2c.
| >
| > Why would it break compilation using f2c if there were a wrapper
| > script for f2c+$CC that acted as a compiler?
| 
| If you provide an equivalent pseudo fortran compiler, then I guess
| it would be OK. Although I'm pretty sure other problems will pop
| up :-)

Sure, but having a script would significantly simplify the configure
script and then if there are problems we can just say "get a real
Fortran compiler or fix the f2c wrapper so that it works".

jwe