Re: distchecking without FC?

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Noah Misch <address@hidden>:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:47:12PM +0200, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> > is there any reason why I can checkout, configure and make all check
> > libtool HEAD but not distcheck it?  Configure would complain (only
> > during distcheck) that I don't have a working Fortran compiler.
>
> I posted a patch to fix this:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2007-05/msg00002.html

Thanks for the pointer,
my working copy has (only) these changes:

$ cvs diff -u
Index: Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/libtool/libtool/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.221
diff -u -r1.221 Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am 4 Jun 2007 03:01:10 -0000       1.221
+++ Makefile.am 14 Jun 2007 12:47:53 -0000
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
        dir=`echo $@ | sed 's,^[^/]*$$,.,;s,/[^/]*$$,,'`; \
        test -d $$dir || mkdir $$dir || exit 1; \
        abs_srcdir=`$(lt__cd) $(srcdir) && pwd`; \
-       (cd $$dir && $$abs_srcdir/$$dir/configure) || exit 1
+       (cd $$dir && $$abs_srcdir/$$dir/configure --with-dist) || exit 1


 # ---------- #
Index: tests/fcdemo/configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/libtool/libtool/tests/fcdemo/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 configure.ac
--- tests/fcdemo/configure.ac   25 Mar 2007 12:12:43 -0000      1.4
+++ tests/fcdemo/configure.ac   14 Jun 2007 12:47:53 -0000
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([foof.f90])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../../libltdl/config])

+AC_ARG_WITH([dist], AS_HELP_STRING([--with-dist],
+                                  [ignore errors not affecting `make dist']))
+
 ## ------------------------ ##
 ## Automake Initialisation. ##
 ## ------------------------ ##
@@ -53,7 +56,11 @@
 AC_FC_WRAPPERS
 dnl We need to use .f90 and not .f to enable Automake FC support
 dnl Some Intel ifc/ifort do not understand .f95.  :-/
-AC_FC_SRCEXT([f90])
+dnl When configuring for `make dist' purposes, skip this check, as it  
yields a
+dnl fatal error when there is no working F90 compiler.
+if test -z "$with_dist"; then
+  AC_FC_SRCEXT([f90])
+fi
 dnl Yes, we want free form Fortran!
 AC_FC_FREEFORM
 AC_LANG_POP


But I still get:
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking how to get verbose linking output from ... configure:  
WARNING: compilation failed

checking for Fortran 77 libraries of ...
checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... configure: error:  
cannot compile a simple Fortran program
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [tests/f77demo/Makefile] Error 1

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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