packages with FORTRAN code

[Kurt Hornik]

Recent sensible changes to the dynload mechanism have made an old
problem resurface:  how should we deal with packages which contain
Fortran code and may need to be linked against additional libraries
such as -lf2c?

The current consensus is that extra Fortran libraries maybe needed are
handled via the make variable FLIBS, and that `-lf2c' or `-lg2c' are
added by default if g77 is used.

This will not solve problems in packages which use their own Makefile
if it does not use FLIBS for building the shared library.  Currently,
this seems to be the case with

	acepack
	akima
	funfits
	growth
	leaps
	tripack

It would be great if the package maintainers could update their pkgs
accordingly.  Most likely, the best solution is to remove the Makefile
altogether.

Thanks
-k
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