Idea: Eliminate libf2c/f2c.h installation from g77 entirely?

Mumit Khan khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
Sat Apr 18 20:56:00 GMT 1998


Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org> writes:
> I'm thinking it might be time to eliminate from g77 any and all
> attempts to "help" the sysadmin by installing the libf2c.a and
> f2c.h files somewhere, which is currently done so that f2c users
> "automatically" use the same files as used by g77, making successful
> linking of executables combining objects generated by both g77 and
> f2c more likely.

I would like to see this "help" feature eliminiated as well. Then again,
I can't speak for f2c users.

This "help" has caused some headache here, and I've resorted to patching 
the Makefile to *not* install the extra copies of f2c.h and libf2c.a for
a few years now.

Regards,
Mumit



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