Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-10-27 Thread Steven G. Johnson
With each year that goes by, the need to address this issue in autoconf and automake increases. We need to make a decision, especially since people keep submitting patches with conflicting strategies. Kate Hedstrom wrote: > It seems to me that the compiler name of $F77 is unfortunate in that > it

Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-10-27 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I should also add that I'm willing to implement this in autoconf (say next weekend; I'll be gone this week) if Akim et al. agree that it (or something similar) is the way to go. Regarding automake, I would think that the ordinary behavior would be to use $F77 for {.f, .F, .for, .f77} and $FXX f

Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-10-27 Thread Steven G. Johnson
With each year that goes by, the need to address this issue in autoconf and automake increases. We need to make a decision, especially since people keep submitting patches with conflicting strategies for this issue. Kate Hedstrom wrote: It seems to me that the compiler name of $F77 is unfortuna

Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-10-27 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Steven G. Johnson wrote: (1) Have two compilers, F77 and FXX, where the former tries to be F77 (i.e. the current behavior) while the latter is selected by AC_PROG_FXX([year], [search-list]), where year is YY or with YY < 54 interpreted as 20YY, and with the default year being the latest suppo

Re: Objections? Re: Checking for CXX libraries -- AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB?

2002-10-27 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Sorry to come (very) late to this thread, I was just reading back through the archives... Allan Clark wrote: This almost argues for a change to a generic function in AC_CHECK_LIB. Do we ever have a need for an AC_CHECK_LIB() to check C libraries using a raw code snippet? AC_CHECK_LIB(,functionc