On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:
> That change is big enough to require some paperwork, I'm afraid.
> Would you be willing to assign the copyright to the Free Software
> Foundation, so that we could install that change in Autoconf?
Absolutely.
> If so, please let me know, and I'll send yo
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:
> You may have some f77 files that have to be preprocessed (e.g. ".F"
> file extension), you may have also some f77 files that have NOT
> to be preprocessed (due to compiler bugs; I have this problem).
> You may have f90 files in free format, others in fi
Paul Eggert wrote:
I agree with others that FXX is a bad name for "the latest Fortran
compiler". But I'm puzzled: instead of inventing a new name, why not
use GNU make's names? Namely, "FC" for the Fortran compiler, and
"FFLAGS" for the flags to give it. The Autoconf macro to set FC can
be call
> Regarding the inference of dialect from file ending, I thought the main
> problem would be that if you use .f the compiler might interpret it as
> fixed-format...which is "solved" by using .f for legacy code (F77) and
> .f90 or whatever for newer code. Is there any F90+ compiler that doesn't
> i
Steven G. Johnson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:
> > You may have some f77 files that have to be preprocessed (e.g. ".F"
> > file extension), you may have also some f77 files that have NOT
> > to be preprocessed (due to compiler bugs; I have this problem).
> > You may have
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:
> Not really. If you have preprocessed Fortran files then "finding a
> compiler" means "finding a compiler with preprocessing". Otherwise
> that compiler is useless (and you should proceed with your search).
If you have C-preprocessed Fortran files, then
> From: "Steven G. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:15:17 -0500
>
> I don't have any particular attachment to FXX. However, I agree with
> John Eaton that FFLAGS is best left as the flags for F77 for backwards
> compatibility reasons.
It sounds like there is no perfect
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:57:21PM -0500, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:
> > Not really. If you have preprocessed Fortran files then "finding a
> > compiler" means "finding a compiler with preprocessing". Otherwise
> > that compiler is useless (and you should
