README for the repackaged CNF library
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What is it?
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The CNF library is a library enabling mixed language programming between
Fortran and C.  It is part of the Starlink Project [1] and can be downloaded in
its original form from [2].

The license of all Starlink software is the GNU GPL version 2 [3].

[1] http://www.starlink.ac.uk/
[2] http://www.starlink.ac.uk/cgi-store/ftpform1?cnf
[3] http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/store/conditions.html


Why repackaging?
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The Starlink software distribution featured an advanced packaging system, which
however does not appear to have been adapted as the best practices in software
packaging, and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, evolved.

We created this repackaging of CNF in order to make it easy to install it in
modern distributions.


How to build and install
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To build:

	make

To install in /usr/local:

	make install

To install in a directory of choice:

	make install prefix=/usr

