Hi Gary, * Gary Kumfert wrote on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:06:17PM CEST: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Norman Gray wrote on Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:51:17PM CET: > > > > > > Gary (if you're still on this list): could I get a copy of the FC > > > support you patched in? > > > > me too. :) > > Its bundled in my research project, Babel, version 0.10.*. > http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/components/software.html
It'd be really nice to see this in form of a patch (or several ones) together with some ChangeLog-like entries describing the changes. But see below. > I use it to mix, C, C++, F77, F90, Java, & Python in a single address space > (no messaging or interpreted middleware). We run on Linux, > OSX, AIX, and maybe still Solaris. Make check takes hours! > > > More generally: if Gary's fixes work OK, can they potentially go into > > > the libtool distribution (paperwork permitting) without there > > > necessarily being a formal Fortran Maintainer In Chief? > > > > Most certainly. We take anything that looks like an improvement here > > and has no obvious drawbacks. > > > > I don't think basic support for $FC would be difficult at all -- > > basically just let it do the same thing as for $F77. I haven't seen > > any further necessity for changes yet; for example, the Solaris 10 > > Fortran compiler seems to work fine with CVS Autoconf and Libtool, > > if used as $F77. > > This is roughly what I did. However, I only did the minimal possible > to get it to work for me (I was crunching for a release). You may > want to review my changes... my understanding of libtool isn't *that* > deep. A cursory look showed basically these changes (latter ones AIX-related): - $FC support which mostly mirrors $F77 support - one of which might be a bugfix (re aix_use_runtimelinking for tag F77 vs CC) - one looks like a babel-specific hack to enable aix_use_runtimelinking always when enable_shared. - an additional flag runtime_linking_flag abstracting -brtl, and a libtool link flag `-dynamic' enabling this. This change looks very bogus and wrong, as -brtl is a configure-time decision in Libtool, and also `-dynamic' would be the default mode on most architectures. It shows, however, the need for some action here. Cleaned up, the first two look basically fine for Libtool. But I would really, really suggest these patches for branch-2-0 of Libtool or higher only, because only then is it possible to leave out support for some tags. People complain enough that their C-only project suddenly looks for a C++ compiler (and even fails without one), we don't want another tag in branch-1-5. For branch-2-0, the first patch would basically need a more-or-less rewrite (copying from the current F77 support again). I will look at the second one. If you don't have time to produce individual patches, I can just post the `diff -u' output. Thanks for sharing, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
