Re: F77 vs. F90 in Octave

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 15:02:16 -0600, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> That's correct.  But I just found out how to view what AC's preferred list
> is.  gfortran is now at the front of the list.  The fact that g77 isn't even
> in their list, I think means that we don't even have to worry about any
> problem that the stream-editor epilogue script was attempting to solve.
> That is, the comment
>
>   ## FIXME -- we should really work to fix autoconf so that it prefers
>   ## gfortran over g77 even when searching for a Fortran 77 compiler.
>
> has been implemented apparently.

I do not believe that is correct. The list you are looking at has
already been run through the bootstrap_epilogue function.

Do feel free to try deleting that function and run ./bootstrap again
and prove me wrong :)

-- 
mike