Re: fc in the f2c package
Alan> The package f2c (fortran-> C) which I mantain contains a script fc
Alan> which is supposed to make f2c seem like a real compiler. It was part
Alan> of the original f2c netlib distribution, but it is very antique and
Alan> has three bugs currently filed against it (no man page, use of /tmp,
Alan> name conflict with bash internal). The second of these is easily
Alan> fixed (thanks to PMM) but the first and third make me wonder if it
Alan> should just be removed (and people encouraged to use fort77 which
Alan> solves the problem in a much more powerful and elegant way). Any
Alan> comments?
I'd keep it. 'configure' scripts look for it as it is a plausible name for a
Fortran compiler. Also, it is part of the upstream package.
The 'no manual' page issue is easy if you can spare 30 minutes to write one
up. There is decent documentation in the Man-Page mini-HOWTO or the example
page in /usr/doc/man-db/manpage.example.
As for the bash internal, that's a little trickier ...
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