Re: [Patch] Remove gccbug from bugreport.texi, take 3

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

> > The Fortran maintainer should be able to advise on what
> > bugs.html ought to have in the way of Fortran-specific information to
> > replace this text in the manual.
>
> Toon, that's for you now: in the patch earlier in this thread, I try to 
> throw out most of the bug reporting instructions from the manuals, and 
> just refer to bugs.html. The only things fortran-wise that don't seem to 
> be covered there are
> a) the extension of preprocessed fortran sources
> b) what to do with INCLUDEd files
>
> Point a) seems to be easily addressed by just adding .f to the list of 
> extensions of preprocessed files (is this always right, i.e. independent 
> of whether .F, .fpp, .r, ... was used before preprocessing?), but for b) 
> we'd need another paragraph, I guess. What's you opinion?

Just give the user the option of:

1. Include the INCLUDEd files in a text editor before submitting the
   source code;

2. Or submit a tar file with .f source and INCLUDEd files.

It's not that we get tons of bug reports that way - I can deal with that 
(I know how to put bug reports into "feedback" mode if something's 
missing :-)

Thanks for dealing with this !

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