Re: F77 vs. F90 in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/24/2014 03:52 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> I also like:
>
> 5) Stick with what we have today, compile all Fortran files with
> $(F77) as if they were valid F77, and deal with problems in Jaroslav's
> code if any bugs are ever encountered and reported.

Yes, this seems reasonable to me.

As I recall, the reason for editing the list during bootstrap is to 
avoid using g77 on systems that still have it installed, but for which 
system libraries like lapack have been compiled with gfortran.  Cases 
like that lead to linking problems, or mixing of calling conventions for 
some functions (complex arguments/return values, I think).

I agree with Mike that specifying our own list is the wrong thing to do.

jwe