On the subject of:
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Norman Gray wrote:
> Working through the dense trees of dependencies here, I'm increasingly
> aware of how convoluted all this is. It strikes me that we could do
I'd like to propose dropping the various star_dev commands (and similar
things within makefiles) which create local-directory links for Fortran
include files, since it's easy to add a -I$STARLINK/include to the default
Fortran compile flags at configure time. g77, Sun f77 and Alpha f77 all
support this flag, and I can't imagine there are any important compilers
which don't. Doing this would remove yet another peculiarity of the
Starlink build process, at no cost I can think of.
Similarly, since the files par_par (for example) are always invoked as
PAR_PAR, is there any reason why they're not installed as such?
Are there any other oddnesses which have been gnawing away at folk?
This is the time to sort them out.
See you,
Norman
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