970530: compiling .F files with NAG f90

Dear Steve,

Russ has passed your problem on to me (I'm the creator of the
installation procedure).

> Date:    30 May 1997 15:10:17 -0500
> From:    "Steve Mauget" <address@hidden>
> To:      "Russ Rew" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: 970529: OFFICE MEMO net

In the above message, you wrote:

> I went ahead and downloaded ver 3.3, and things seemed to going
> smoothly until the f90 compilations during "make". Seems that the
> NAG f90 compiler does not recognize the "*.F" file extensions
> in src/nf_test and routes them to the loader instead of the c
> pre-processor. The people at NAG claim that *.F are an exotic,
> non-standard extension,

The NAG people are correct in that the .F extension is used only by
exotic systems.  Such systems include (but are not limited to) the
following:

    System      Compiler
    ------      --------
    AIX         xlf
    BSD/OS      fort77
    HP-UX       fort77
    IRIX        f77
    IRIX64      f77
    Linux       fort77
    OSF/1       f77
    SunOS 4     f77
    SunOS 5     f77
    UNICOS      f90
    ULTRIX      f77

These are, indeed, highly exotic systems.  ;-)

Tell the NAG people to get off their butts and join the rest of the
world.  :-)

In the meantime...

> so I'm currently trying to figure out how to
> turn *.F files into fortran source code using cpp. Maybe that was the
> same problem with the ver. 2.4.3 install.

The configure script should have automatically determined that your
FORTRAN compiler doesn't support .F files.  I wonder what when wrong.

Would you please send me the standard output from your configure script
and also the file config.log.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>