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Re: UnixWare-7.1.1 failure of autoconf-2.49c selftest


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Re: UnixWare-7.1.1 failure of autoconf-2.49c selftest
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:05:25 -0500 (EST)

Hello, Allan!

> The core of this problem may be related to the assumption that "fc" is
> "fortran compiler".  In USL-based systems, that's your command history
> processor.  http://uw7doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man/man?fc can provide more
> information.

This is fixed in the CVS version of Autoconf. The testsuite won't fail
anymore because of a broken compiler. Unfortunately, `fc' will still be
picked as a Fortran compiler.

> Is there a way to avoid this problem?  Is there a full name for the
> fortran compiler such as "f77c" ?

A comment in aclang.m4 is quite clear:

# `fort77' and `fc' are wrappers around `f2c', `fort77' being better.

I agree that `fc' is very inconvenient to use. It's a builtin command in
bash and possibly other shells. Unfortunately, I don't know how widespread
the name `fc' was for legitimate Fortran compilers.

I won't object against excluding `fc' from the default list of known
fortran compilers.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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