Description of problem:

Not sure that it is fixable. gfortran is still immature and lacking g77
features. So there is still a need to compile with g77. Now i am trying to link
statically with lapack, using g77 as a linker, but it fails. Here is what I get:

[dumas@nor75-15-82-67-190-22 examples]$ cat call_sgemm.f 
       program main
       call sgemm
       end

[dumas@nor75-15-82-67-190-22 examples]$  g77 -static -o call_sgemm -g -O2
call_sgemm.f -lblas
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libblas.a(xerbla.o): In
function `xerbla_': undefined reference to `_gfortran_st_write'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libblas.a(xerbla.o): In
function `xerbla_': undefined reference to `_gfortran_transfer_character'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libblas.a(xerbla.o): In
function `xerbla_': undefined reference to `_gfortran_transfer_integer'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libblas.a(xerbla.o): In
function `xerbla_': undefined reference to `_gfortran_st_write_done'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libblas.a(xerbla.o): In
function `xerbla_': undefined reference to `_gfortran_stop_numeric'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It works when called with -lgfortran:
 g77 -static -o call_sgemm -g -O2 call_sgemm.f -lblas -L
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/ -lgfortran




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. link statically with g77 without an expplicit call to -lgfortran
2.
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Actual results:

link failure.

Expected results:

No link error.

Additional info:

This is one of many issues with g77/gfortran incompatibilities issues. The ABI
is different, too, but it doesn't affect lapack because it only affect functions.