From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: N8TM To: burley@gnu.org, egcs@cygnus.com, g77-alpha@gnu.org Subject: Re: Idea: Eliminate libf2c/f2c.h installation from g77 entirely? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:50:00 -0000 Message-id: <77b4530e.35399e56@aol.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00745.html In a message dated 4/18/98 2:28:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, burley@gnu.org writes: << egcs@cygnus.com, g77-alpha@gnu.org >> 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 my $.02 I don't know anyone who links with libf2c nowadays other than by invoking g77, so for practical purposes libf2c belongs to g77. I use f2c, the source code processor, as an alternate to g77 sometimes, for example to try out processor- dependent ways of doing things. I haven't seen any great problems with the libf2c way of doing library calls, and I can imagine much worse ways, having in front of me daily the example of HPUX. It might be nice to have a way to invoke the gcc macro facility, but it would also contribute to non-portability. I can see what to me are significant improvements in parts of the library, without intentionally departing from the current f2c conventions. I'm planning to make up a .diff file of my versions compared to egcs 1.0.2