.F and fortran compilers

[William Gropp]

At 04:41 PM 3/24/2003 -0600, Robert Latham wrote:
>Does anyone here know of a compiler flavor that doesn't like .F files?
>
>g77 will take anything you throw at it, but it would not surprise me
>if, for example, a compiler on *some* os gets horribly confused if
>asked to build a .F file

Yep, I had to handle this for one of our test systems, probably the OSF 
machine.  I see that I broke my own rule and did not include the name of 
the culprit in the comments (see mpich2/src/binding/f77/mpif77.in ).

Bill