-->"Lyndon" == Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Lyndon> If you weed out the bits that are already in Posix

one problem with a lot of code is that it's also "portable" to Windows.
using a manually-created config.h, and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, the source
itself can maintain some internal consistency, if not total cleanliness.

  Lyndon> And why the configure script cares about what version of
  Lyndon> FORTRAN 77 compiler I have simply escapes me.

likely because it uses libtool, which automatically checks for FORTRAN
and C++ compilers, linkers, support for PIC, etc, regardless of whether
they're actually needed :-(

the benefit of libtool is that it centralises the magic required to
produce a shared library across various operating systems, compilers and
linkers.  it's a tradeoff most people are willing to make.




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