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Re: F77: remove .j files
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
- Subject: Re: F77: remove .j files
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:29:30 +0200
- CC: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <20000620161750.O5412@wolery.cumb.org>
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The Fortran front end indirects all references to GCC's common headers
> through a set of wrappers, whose names end in .j. This serves only to
> obfuscate the build process. The following patch eliminates them.
>
> We lose the capability to autogenerate dependencies for the Fortran
> subdirectory. I don't think this is any great loss, since that code
> is unmaintained and we can't do this anywhere else.
Well, I don't feel competent to comment on this, because I never
understood the reason for the .j files. If someone on the list knows,
please speak up !
OTOH, I do like your simplification of the build process very much, so
please go ahead - if the need arises to reinstate the above
autogeneration of dependencies, we might as well rethink that process
from scratch.
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