[mpich-discuss] Compiling shared libraries with Fortran 77 compiler and unexpected option

[Dave Goodell]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:38 AM CDT, Dave Goodell wrote:

> On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:24 AM CDT, Thomas Jahns wrote:
> 
>> there is one other problem still: MPICH2LIB_LDFLAGS do still end up in the
>> wrapper, despite documentation indicating otherwise. This is the result of setting
> 
> Hmm... this is a tricky area of the configure.  There is a tension between wanting to discover some needed libraries and/or library search paths automatically in configure (think -lmx and -L/path/to/mx/lib) and putting exactly what the user asked for in the wrapper linking flags.

FWIW, it looks like we have had this problem reported to us before and didn't change things for some reason:

https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/htdig/mpich-discuss/2010-November/008424.html

-Dave