> From: "Steven G. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:15:17 -0500 > > I don't have any particular attachment to FXX. However, I agree with > John Eaton that FFLAGS is best left as the flags for F77 for backwards > compatibility reasons.
It sounds like there is no perfect solution here, but I think it'd be better to be consistent with GNU make. The GNU Make convention is that FC and FFLAGS are a pair, and F77 and F77FLAGS are a pair. By default they have the same meaning, since the default value of F77 is "$(FC)", and the default value of F77FLAGS is "$(FFLAGS)". The default value of FFLAGS is empty; the default value of FC is "fortran" on VMS, "cf77" on Cray, "xlf" on _IBMR2, "fc" on Convex, and "f77" otherwise. Perhaps these conventions are wrong or outdated, but if we use different conventions in Autoconf we should endeavor to have those conventions installed into GNU Make too. > Perhaps you'll be happier if it's not presented as an arbitrary year > (which is not needed), but rather as a canonical version string: That sounds good to me.
