Re: autoconf-2.57f: make check: 2 Errors related to fort77 (fink package) on Mac OS X

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Akim Demaille wrote:
>  > 2003-10-02  Steven G. Johnson  <address@hidden>
> 
>  >    * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure
>  >    to fix test suite for non-freeform-supporting compilers.  Support
>  >    -f freeform option for f2c/fort77 (thanks to Sander Niemeijer).
> 
> Please, install this patch, but this latter sentence (relating -f to
> f2c/fort77) ought to be either in the documentation, or in the comment
> of the macro, but not the ChangeLog please.

I installed the exit 77 patch, and also added documentation on the
provenance of the freeform flags.  I didn't install the -f patch because,
as Sander confirmed, it doesn't actually enable freeform support in the
F90 sense.

Steven