This sounds like excellent news. One of my big worries was that we would
be left holding/supporting a significantly patched yet obsolete
autoconf/automake.
Getting these patches into the standard autoconf will be incredibly
useful.
Tim
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Norman Gray wrote:
> All,
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: 2004 July 13 19.03.34 BST
> > To: Norman Gray <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Fpp in autoconf.
> >
> [...]
> > Norman Gray: [Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:34:51PM +0100]:
> >>
> >> I'll work through your fortran.m4 changes next
> >> week, and merge them into the current version.
> >> My working version of this is in an accessible CVS repository
> >> <http://cvsweb.starlink.ac.uk/cvsweb.cgi/thirdparty/fsf/automake/?
> >> only_with_tag=dev-nxg-20040116-add-fpp-support>
> >> Are you au fait with CVS? I'd be delighted to get you an account on
> >> this machine if you'd like to use the repository to read or write.
> >
> > That would be really useful, yes. I've got a couple more fixes since
> > the
> > last version I sent you; a quick one to deal with Lahey, and a more
> > involved one which is not yet finished for the
> > Compaq/Digital/OSF-1/whatever
> > it is this week compiler, which is proving problematic.
>
> Toby has been trying out my autoconf Fortran patches, and extending
> them to work with other Fortran compilers.
>
> Does anyone have any objections to him having an account on
> cvs.starlink? Steve? DavidG? If not, then Steve, can you create an
> account?
>
> See you,
>
> Norman
>
>
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