From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Mon Apr 12 17:32:38 1999
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:32:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Fortran vs C, easing using Fortran
Message-ID: <199904121632.RAA11126@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>

>  From: Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at>

> But I think there is no difference between
>   SHLIBLD=ld
>   SHLIBLDFLAGS="-shared -expect_unresolved '*'"
> and
>   SHLIBLD=f77
>   SHLIBLDFLAGS="-shared"
> because f77 also calls ld (ok, with the correct Fortran libraries,
> libUfor.so, libFutil.so, libots.so). I guess this works because I link R
> with LDCMD="f77 -nofor_main", so it already contains the symbols of the
> Fortran libraries.

Thanks, it is the `ok, with the correct Fortran libraries' we are looking for
here.


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Fortran vs C, easing using Fortran
Prof Brian Ripley