In article <mcampbel.719931163@eola.cs.ucf.edu> mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell ) writes:
quoted text
>Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Oct23.122551.11874@athena.mit.edu>,
>>hellmund@hep.physik.uni-leipzig.dbp.de wrote:
>
>>> Now my question: Is that an error of my installation/machine
>>> or has really nobody before tested the f2c binary in the SLS 
>>> package? 
>
>>Well, I too tested it on some pretty simple programs and found it crashed
>>every time.  I am sucking down the sources now so as to check out what you
>>mentioned in your post....  Thanks for the knowledge that it can be made to
>>work and the pointer to the source....
>
>I've seen the same behavior.  Let us all know when/if anything gets discovered.
>

f2c works;  the following patch worked for me: (Of course you still need the
libraries; source of them should be available the same place you got f2c.tar)
==================  procedure for extracting and patching f2c =======
tar -xvf f2c.tar
cd tmp
uncompress *
patch -p0 < patch.f2c
=====================  begin patch.f2c ==============
*** makefile.del        Sat Oct 24 11:37:22 1992
--- makefile    Sat Oct 24 11:35:22 1992
***************
*** 1,7 ****
  #     Makefile for f2c, a Fortran 77 to C converter
  
  g = -g
! CFLAGS = $g
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  
  OBJECTSd = main.o init.o gram.o lex.o proc.o equiv.o data.o format.o \
--- 1,7 ----
  #     Makefile for f2c, a Fortran 77 to C converter
  
  g = -g
! CFLAGS = $g -DLINUX
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  
  OBJECTSd = main.o init.o gram.o lex.o proc.o equiv.o data.o format.o \
***************
*** 21,28 ****
                cat gram.head gram.dcl gram.expr gram.exec gram.io ) >gram.in
        $(YACC) $(YFLAGS) gram.in
        echo "(expect 4 shift/reduce)"
!       sed 's/^# line.*/\/* & *\//' y.tab.c >gram.c
!       rm -f gram.in y.tab.c
  
  $(OBJECTSd): defs.h ftypes.h defines.h machdefs.h sysdep.h
  
--- 21,28 ----
                cat gram.head gram.dcl gram.expr gram.exec gram.io ) >gram.in
        $(YACC) $(YFLAGS) gram.in
        echo "(expect 4 shift/reduce)"
!       sed 's/^# line.*/\/* & *\//' gram.in.tab.c >gram.c
!       rm -f gram.in gram.in.tab.c
  
  $(OBJECTSd): defs.h ftypes.h defines.h machdefs.h sysdep.h
  
*** malloc.c.del        Sat Oct 24 11:41:36 1992
--- malloc.c    Sat Oct 24 11:36:28 1992
***************
*** 21,26 ****
--- 21,29 ----
  this software.
  ****************************************************************/
  
+ #ifdef LINUX
+ #define CRAY
+ #endif
  #ifndef CRAY
  #define MINBLK (2*sizeof(struct mem) + 16)
  #define MSTUFF _malloc_stuff_
*** xsum0.out.del       Mon Feb 10 00:03:50 1992
--- xsum0.out   Sat Oct 24 11:44:50 1992
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! Notice        fb5a412e        1183
  README        fe10cd03        3340
  cds.c e93849b8        3884
  data.c        e552a480        9278
--- 1,4 ----
! Notice        80b5a78 1189
  README        fe10cd03        3340
  cds.c e93849b8        3884
  data.c        e552a480        9278
***************
*** 27,34 ****
  lex.c fe1e63b6        29374
  machdefs.h    4950e5b 659
  main.c        1c136861        16450
! makefile      12f58dbe        2510
! malloc.c      5c2be2a 3422
  mem.c 5b007b2 4761
  memset.c      17404d52        1964
  misc.c        19c4624d        17758
--- 27,34 ----
  lex.c fe1e63b6        29374
  machdefs.h    4950e5b 659
  main.c        1c136861        16450
! makefile      e525c181        2530
! malloc.c      1cbb1fa6        3455
  mem.c 5b007b2 4761
  memset.c      17404d52        1964
  misc.c        19c4624d        17758
-- 
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