Re: f2c configure fix

[Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>]

  In message <rzqiudba2jx.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>you write:
  > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  >  Jeff> The problem is we do not include the right -I arguments to
  >  Jeff> ensure that we get the right header files.
  > 
  > Is it definitely clear that's the whole problem?  (Sorry, I haven't
  > had time to check.)
Unsure.  It actually doesn't have any externally visible bad effects on my
PAs, but I got the impression from Kaveh or someone else that it did have a
bad effect on alpha-dec-someosfversion

  > No, it's not installed.  I can install it if someone will approve it.
Ah.  I had kinda assumed you'd take care of it, you were waiting for an
approval.  Deadlock :(

I think it's the right thing to do -- if nothing else than to prevent
these errors from confusing the configure process.

If you've still got the patch handy, I recommend installing it.  If you don't
have it handy, let me know and I'll dig it out of the archives.

  > It's currently conflated with another one in my sources, also not
  > approved, to change the $f77_cv_... introduced by
  > 
  > 1998-11-26  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
  > 
  >         * configure.in (compiler_name): Add check to detect if this
  >         language's compiler has been built.
  > 
  > to $g77_cv_..., avoiding the namespace now annexed (reasonably) by
  > autoconf.  (This might save grief some time with site config files.)
  > Would someone approve that too?  Sorry the submission isn't to hand,
  > but it's a trivial renaming.
Seems reasonable to me too.

jeff