Just remember f2c depends on a whole slew of support routines in  
libf2c.a - though most of these are IO related.

But there is some work between running f2c on some fortran and have a  
pure C code that works.

Karl



On 12/11/2009, at 2:39 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:

> Karl Glazebrook wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I've come to this thread pretty late, let me interject some comments.
>> It seems to me there are several classes of users
>> 1) People who want to use PDL as a dependency on CPAN, for some  
>> lightweight efficient array ops. These people would want it to just  
>> build and install automatically without any hassle which means  
>> plain perl/C and also without any external dependencies. Right now  
>> this means they might lose some basic things such as matrix ops and  
>> FFTs, but maybe we could peel some of those back out of external  
>> libs.
>
> I think f2c on the slatec code and the internal FFT algorithm
> should cover the bases for now.


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