Hi Ed, * Ed Hartnett wrote on Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 06:29:29PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What are the differences that are important to you? Can they be > > recognized by a suitable test to be done in `configure'? Without > > running generated executables? What if one of the compiler changes > > in one of the interesting features (fixes some bug, or so)? > > Of course I realized this while cycling home yesterday.
:-) > The difference is how they call functions in a C library - whether > they add one underscore or two, and how they treat function names that > already contain underscores. > > This is all in support of the cfortran.h package, which allows one to > wrap C library functions in fortran. > > What I need to do (for the next release of my package) is have some > tests that detect this stuff. Much of what you need has already been done before: Autoconf has some helpful macros, the Autoconf archive has some more, some third party packages may have even more; MPI implementations like MPICH or OpenMPI come to mind here as packages that work with a lot of Fortran compilers. > > AFAIK the gcc-4.x Fortran compiler is named gfortran. > > When I installed gcc 4.0.2 it named it "f95" but I recognize gfortran > as well. Guess they changed after 4.0 then. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
