Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:07:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: djgpp+f2c
To: milgram AT eng DOT umd DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I have a largish Fortran
>application

I pity you...

>I'm using a precompiled source for f2c but am  compiling the libraries myself
>with djgpp. The f2c readme discusses things  which may require tweaking, but
>it would save a lot of work if someone has already been through this.
>
>(The current  problem is an undefined reference to _open in one of the f2c 
>library routines. Turns out open gets #defined to _open if MSDOS is defined;
>I tried removing -DMSDOS from the CFLAGS but no luck. Is MSDOS  predefined in
>djgpp? Is there something about  _open vs. open I should know about?)

_open is MSC's marginally faster version of open; MSDOS is, as set in
lib/specs, predifined.

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