Re: 'fc' program and autoconf

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:12:33 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Steven G. Johnson" <address@hidden>

> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I think the fc Fortran compiler is long
> > dead, so I installed this patch.
> 
> Perhaps I spoke too soon?  It turns out that 'fc' is the name of the
> (native) Fortran compiler by Convex (now HP) on the HP Exemplar SPP.

If that's the only fc we have to worry about, we should be OK.  The
Convex Exemplar is obsolete, and other than a hobbyist picking one up
at a salvage auction I don't think we'll ever run into anyone actually
booting one.  (Next you'll be finding old copies of manuals for the
Kendall Square KSR-1.  :-)

In the unlikely case that someone still actually uses such a beast,
they'll almost certainly have HP's Fortran as well (called "f77"), and
since f77 preceded fc in the list we can safely omit the fc.