Comment 8 for bug 156524

A number of people (including myself) are having trouble compiling standard programs that either worked before, or should work out of the box, but for a missing libgfortran.so link. Should it be that for every fortran program we compile, we must modify the makefile to look in /usr/lib/gcc/<arch>/<version>/ for the libgfortran.so link (and change it for every new release)? If so, that's annoying, and please regard this as a formal request to use the debian alternatives mechanism to point at the right library. If this is not the best solution, can you please suggest a more standard way to deal with this?

Thanks,

   Kevin