What is necessary to know for a sucessful compile of the libraries?
1) F90 and f77 compiler. 
2) Optimization switches.
3) Location of Lapack, blas and fft-libraries.
4) Cray Unicos or not.

All these requirements can be met using standard makefiles. 
The problem using autoconf and automake is that they are oriented towards standard GNU tools - That is c, c++ and f77 compilers. 

It is ofcourse possible to use autoconf to check for compilers and libraries, but one must be able to ask that the user knows which compilers is installed, and where lapack and blas is located. 

When this information is entered into the make.in files, the remaining compile process should work painlessly.



