libf2c problem

[John Gotts]

In message < 199802100014.QAA19278@atrus.synopsys.com >, Joe Buck writes:

>> The latest binutils is fine. It is dejagnu that is broken.

>> Someone forgot to update dejagnu when libf2c was moved out of the
>> gcc directory. Is there a patch for dejagnu to find where libf2c.a
>> lives?

>It seems that dejagnu is too tightly coupled to the Cygnus tree structure
>and has too much builtin knowledge of How Things Are Supposed To Be,
>so it is very brittle.  Is there any way that this can be addressed?
>It seems that paths to libraries should be part of the egcs distribution
>and not dejagnu.

Admittedly, I was using a recent snapshot of dejagnu (971222 to be specific),
but I forsee dejagnu as becoming a generally useful tool like autoconf and
libtool.  Octave already successfully implements it.  Perhaps after a bit of
work on dejagnu it will be ready for general use and a berth on ftp.gnu.org.

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