[Fedora-packaging] fortran .mod files

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 14:23 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 19:55 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:18:42AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>>>> So, I think that if they're searched in the include path, they should be
>>>> under the %_includedir. Modules/mod is too vague, but perhaps f90 is too
>>>> specific? Wouldn't later fortran modules hit this as well? (f95? 2003?)
>>> Yes, I chose f90 because it was the oldest fortran standard version with
>>> these .mod. To be more genereic, maybe
>>>
>>> %_includedir/%_lib/fortran
>> This seems reasonable to me. Anyone else?
> 
> I think we will need some gcc's f90 specialist's opinion.
> 
> My gut feeling is, a manually multilib'ed include directory like the one
> above (%_includedir/%_lib) can't be right, unless GCC starts to support
> searching multilib'ed include dirs (It currently doesn't).
> 
> That said, I am in favor of a directory rooted at %{_libdir}, say
> %{_libdir}/finclude
> or %{_libdir}/f90
> or %{_libdir}/gfortran
> 
We have precedent (on a smaller scale) for this from the C world as well 
with things like %{_libdir}/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h.

After reading that these mod files are potentially compiler dependent as 
well, using %{_libdir}/f90 and %{_libdir}/gfortran makes a lot of sense 
to me.

-Toshio