Bug#290102: g77-3.3: Please recompile with MXUNIT in fio.h increased to >= 1000

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Kevin McCarty writes:
> Package: g77-3.3
> Version: 1:3.3.5-6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Through no fault of my own :-) I have to deal with FORTRAN code that uses
> very large UNIT numbers (up to 750) when opening files.  According to
> src/libf2c/libI77/README.netlib, this can be done by increasing the value
> of MXUNIT in fio.h in the same source directory and recompiling.  Is there
> any reason not to increase this value to (say) 1000 in the Debian binary
> packages?

Looking at the code, it looks safe to increase the size. However you
let the code compile on Debian systems, but it will fail anywhere
else, where MXUNIT has the unchanged value. Did other distributors
raise this value? Is the compilation of the modified library in your
source tree a solution?

	Matthias