Re: [Plplot-general] PLplot 5.6.1 Release Candidate 1

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@li...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > Orion Poplawski wrote:
 > > Finally, I guess I should have weighed in earlier on the debate about
 > > where to put the fortran .mod files earlier, but I'm not sure I'm happy
 > > about /usr/lib/fortran/modules/plplot.  Why so many subdirs?  Why not
 > > just /usr/lib/plplot?  The former makes for more work for distribution
 > > makers (who owns /usr/lib/fortran?).
 > 
 > At this point, I don't think the Linux community has really come to grips
 > with this fortran 95 install location issue since it is only recently that
 > libre fortran 95 compilers (gfortran and g95) became viable solutions. The
 > fortran part of the above install location was recommended in a generic
 > way by someone on the Linux File Hierarchy Standards list, but that is
 > certainly not an official decision and they may change their minds
 > later. The modules part of it was my invention to be more informative, but
 > if that turns out to be a major problem we can certainly move to
 > /usr/lib/fortran/plplot in the future or anything else that finally
 > becomes officially recommended by the LFHS group.  For now, though, I
 > think we should just stick with what we have.

???  Maybe I put my foot in the wrong place on that.  I thought I had
registered support for putting the Fortran modules under the $prefix.