Re: f2c obsolete?

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Oct-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| 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)

Where does it belong?  It seems that it is added to CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
and LIBS.  Is that correct?  I don't know how best to insert it in
LIBS (or FLIBS) but would consider patches that would allow it to be
specified by adding XTRA_FLIBS=-MD (or similar) on the configure
command line.

jwe