Emacs and GFortran

[stephen at xemacs.org]

There's a thread on emacs-devel with the same subject.  (NB, the
references in my headers refer to the emacs-devel thread.)  I propose
that we deal with this issue by adding the following text (should be
self-explanatory) to PROBLEMS and/or the FAQ.  Comments?

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compile-mode can't find source location in gfortran errors!

gfortran's error reporting does not conform to the GNU standard for
error messages.  We consider this a bug in gfortran, unless and until
the standard is amended.  You can work around this bug by placing the
following code in your init file:

                      <appropriate Lisp snippet>
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NB.  It would appear that gfortran error messages can be sufficiently
complex that the snippet described on emacs-devel does not allow
jumping from error message to source in all cases.  There is zero
support on emacs-devel for catering to gfortran, FWIW.