Re: f2c obsolete?

[Michael Goffioul]

On 10/24/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> It looks like the fort77 script distributed as part of Debian (I'm not
> sure where the "official" upstream source is kept) should work with
> the following minor change.
>
> --- /usr/bin/fort77     2006-01-02 07:34:15.000000000 -0500
> +++ ./fort77    2007-10-24 02:44:23.000000000 -0400
> @@ -186,11 +186,9 @@
>
>  if ($verbose) {
>     print STDERR "$0: fort77 Version $version\n";
> -    if ($verbose > 1) {
> -       push(@copts,"-v");
> -       push(@lopts,"-v");
> -       push(@cppopts,"-v");
> -    }
> +    push(@copts,"-v");
> +    push(@lopts,"-v");
> +    push(@cppopts,"-v");
>  }
>
>
> Without this, it just prints simple "verbose" messages about what is
> happening, and those are not sufficient for the Fortran library
> detection macro used in autoconf.

I can give it a try, but how am I suppose to use this within the configure
script of octave: something like

F77=fort77 FLIBS=-lf2c ./configure ... ?

Note also that the -MD flag should be added to fortran compiler, in the
same way it is done for CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS (se configure.in around
line 297)

Michael.