Re: [Boost-build] How to build F77 sources?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-01 14:07:19

On Monday 24 March 2008 13:16:30 Thomas Klimpel wrote:
> > > However, I get the feeling that compiling F77 sources is not supported
> > by boost.build. Is this
> > > feeling correct?
> > 
> > It's only supported with the XLF compiler. If you tell on what compiler
> > you want to compile
> > fortran, and what special options, if any, are needed, I can add support
> > quickly.
> 
> My system currently invokes the gcc-3.4 version of g77 by default, 
> while c and c++ are compiled with gcc-4.1.3. This seems to be the 
> recommended configuration for gcc-4.1. For gcc-4.2, the recommended
> configuration seems to be to invoke the gcc-4.2 version of gfortran by default.   

I'm confused. Can you explicitly spell out what commands should be invoked if
sources list of an 'exe' target include a file with the .f extension?

Thanks,
Volodya