Re: FYI: Autoconf patches for more-modern Fortran

[Steven G. Johnson]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> If Steven comes up with the documentation now,
> we can install it but ifdef it out so that ordinary users won't see it
> until after 2.58 comes out.  That way, we don't have to worry so much
> about inhibiting Steve from generating the documentation.

I've been looking at the manual, and I don't think this is really 
viable.  The reason is that many of the F77 and FC macros are almost 
identical, so one really wants to document them together.  This makes it 
hard to be able to cleanly comment the newer stuff out.

(It's still a bit of a pain to write both macro names everywhere, e.g. 
@code{AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN}/@code{AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN}.  The alternative would 
be to use something like @code{AC_F*_DUMMY_MAIN} in the documentation, 
but that might be unclear.)

Of course, I can still work on the documentation and keep the patches 
current via cvs updating, like I did with the code patches, until it 
gets merged in.

Steven