On 2007-08-09 13:44+0200 yardbird wrote:
Hello,
I would like to use CMake as a build system for a Fortran project of my
research group.
[...]I think CMake is confused when it finds the "USE" keyword somewhere in
Fortran
comments, and it is tricked into thinking that the keyword is specifying some
dependency even if it is placed inside a comment. Indeed, by erasing all
comments in source files, usually the build is performed successfully.
Does this make any sense?
Yes. That is one of the Fortran bugs, but there are more, see reference below.
I would really like to use CMake for these Fortran
projects, since I'm already using it heavily in my C/C++ projects and I love
it.
I use CMake for a couple of Fortran projects, but Fortran is not used by the
CMake developers so it tends to be only weakly supported. Thus, there are a
number of long-standing CMake fortran bugs you have to work around. I
summarized those bugs (and the required workarounds) at
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-November/012052.html. The
workarounds are pretty ugly (for example, change all occurrences of " use "
to "_use_" in your comment strings), but I do like CMake so I am willing
to put up with the Fortran workarounds for now, although it would be great
to get these CMake/Fortran bugs fixed instead.
Note, to see the full account of these bugs, you will have to create a new
bug tracker account, login to the new CMake bug tracker system and
explicitly jump to bugs 3109, 3144, or 3984.
Which brings up a general question to those in charge of the bug tracking
system: As a convenience to users can you make the bug tracker information
available in a read-only way which does not involve logging in? I am well
aware you have had to recently fight off a spam attack, but if Mantis
is truly a secure system, it should be able to supply read-only information
about bugs without requiring an account, logging in, etc.
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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