>>>>> "SGJ" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SGJ> Is "fc" an F95 compiler? F90? F77?
The script I'm thinking of, like `fort77', is a frontend to f2c (in
the f2c distribution) so it's f77. (I originally changed `f2c' to
`fc' but forgot to send in the change and it's since been made
anyway.)
SGJ> I ask because I think all of the Fortran 77 compilers should be
SGJ> checked before the F90 compilers, which should be checked before
SGJ> the F95 compilers (as it is AC_PROG_*F77*, after all).
`fc' has infelicities, which is why `fort77' was written. f2c is
likely to produce less-optimized, less easily-debuggable code than the
most likely other compilers corresponding to the other names there,
all of which I'd expect to compile standard Fortran77 regardless. [I
assume fort77 comes earlier because it's also the name of the native
compiler on some systems (HPUX?).] Also `fc' is doubtless the name of
some completely different command on some system or other. It's
obviously a matter of some judgement where it should go, but I'd
definitely prefer to pick up NAG f95, for instance.
SGJ> Steven
SGJ> PS. Patches should go to the autoconf-patches mailing list.
Doc fix, then!
