On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote:

> The term "fortran compiler" in Open MPI's README is not (as far as I could 
> see) clearly defined as "a fortran compiler which honors file suffixes to 
> determine language dialect"
> 
> My FC=xlf90 setting is "historical" from the testing scripts I've used since 
> the 1.5 and 1.6 series.

Good call.  Jeff Hammond mentioned this on the MPICH list when we were 
discussing the concept of the "mpifort" wrapper compiler, and I neglected to 
include that in OMPI docs.  I'd updated the README.

> ADDITIONALLY, the Open MPI manpages STILL say FC is to be a fortran90 
> compiler and F77 is to be an fortran77 compiler.  It looks like others might 
> encounter the same problem I describe above just by reading the documentation 
> too closely.

Will fix.

FAQ will need to be updated, too.

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