On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:34 AM Thomas Jahns <ja...@dkrz.de> wrote: > > - Our code is a mix of Fortran and C, with a bit of C++. Automake still > > deos not support Fortran 90-type module dependencies, so we have to manage > > manual dependencies in one of our Makefile.am's. More modern systems handle > > Fortran (not quite the latest fad) much better. > > At our site, there are a number of scripts in use that generate the Fortran > module/file dependencies on demand. For those not knowing Fortran: source > files > are compiled to both, .mod files for use in runs of the compiler and .o files > for the later link step. The .mod files can follow a number of conventions in > respect to suffix and upper/lower case basename and suffix.
This is going to become very important to keep automake relevant, as c++ is adopting modules using the same two-file-output mechanism as Fortran. GNU Make supports having a rule generate multiple files and tracking them accordingly. I think automake really needs to support this soon.
