-->"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. d
