On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Garrett Rooney > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> While configuring apr-1.3.3, I realized that the configure script >>> checks for g77 and not for gfortran. The development of g77 has >>> stopped and is now replaced by gfortran. gfortran works well on both >>> Fortran 90, Fortran 77 programs. Would it be possible to add a check >>> for gfortran before checking for g77? >> >> Do we actually use gfotran, g77, or any other fortran compiler in any >> way? I expect that check is just boilerplate autoconf stuff that we >> never actually use. >> > > It also checks for g++. A cursory glance through the code tells me > that there are no .cpp, .cc programs. Is checking for g++ necessary?
Probably not. Like I said, pretty much all of that stuff is boilerplate checks that autoconf throws in when you use their default "get me a C compiler" macro. -garrett
