On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Paul Eggert wrote: > 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.
I agree that consistency with GNU Make is a good thing, but I shudder at the thought of the howls of protest that might arise from all the existing Fortran users. Moreover, I suspect that consistency with automake (which uses $F77 and $FFLAGS) should take priority over consistency with the implicit rules in GNU Make. > Perhaps these conventions are wrong or outdated, but if we use 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. I agree. Steven
