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Russ, Harvey wrote: > > 2. The file INSTALL should mention: > > > > (a) How to build & test system without FORTRAN. (This could > > be made a little simpler if all you had to do was specify > > FC=''. Also it would be nice if this happened automatically > > on system which did not have any FORTRAN.) Note that test of > > ncgen includes FORTRAN test for -f option. Odd. As far as I can tell from looking at the top-level Makefile and ncgen/Makefile in the distribution, support for ignoring the FORTRAN interface (via an empty FC variable) is already there. Harvey, doesn't it work? > > (b) Default for -prefix is ../.. (relative to subdirectory e.g. libsrc > > i.e. .. relative to src) I'm afraid I don't see the problem. The default installation prefix was *designed* to be the absolute pathname equivalent to `..' relative to the top-level source directory. This is the standard way to install a "package". The installation prefix can be overridden via the `-prefix=<path>' option of the configure script. I checked the distributed configure script for this feature and it worked. -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>