On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:32:39AM -0500, Lance Westerhoff wrote: > Is it possible to define the linker separately from the compiler so > that I can use either the f90 compiler or the c++ compiler depending > upon the requirements of the project? Use _LINK e.g. if whatever LINKER=$(CXX) else LINKER=$(WHATEVER) endif yourprogram_LINK = $(LINKER) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@