binary compatibilty of severn

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I started to run into problems already with RH9 when
my fortran compilers (intel fortran, lahey) would no
longer link statically or not link at all. I
understand that is due to the new pthreads library,
also it would have been great to still be able to link
against the old libs.

With severn the problems are much more severe, with
the lahey compiler already the install fails and the
intel compiler now frequently fails already at the
compile stage (internal errors etc.) Note that the ifc
7.1 was build for RH8 which is not that long ago.

Is RH plaining some kind of compatibility setup for
this and future release as it used to do in the past
or is backwards compatibilty a thing of the past with
RHL?



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