On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Steven G. Johnson wrote: > >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. > > > > Absolutely not. Automake needs to conform to make, so consider it a bug > in Automake.
I agree. There have got to be a *lot* more Fortran people using gnu make than using autoconf/automake. Kate -- Kate Hedström Arctic Region Supercomputing Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska, Fairbanks
