On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi Tristan, > >> I am starting to build fortran for VMS. > > Thanks for the patch and this endeavor. > >> The first serious issue was with libgfortran/configure. It checks for >> several math functions, but directly in libm using AC_CHECK_LIB. >> But there is on such things as libm on VMS systems > > I think after building you will run into the same issue when using > gfortran. The linking of -lm is hardcoded in gcc/fortran/gfortranspec.c > (search there for MATH_LIBRARY).
A target may redefine MATH_LIBRARY to "" to avoid linking with -lm, and this is correctly handled by gfortranspec.c. After defining MATH_LIBRARY in vms.h, I was able to cross build a hello whorl fortran program. So that part is already correctly handled! > And it is hard coded in libgfortran/libgfortran.spec.in and in the > as-needed check of libgfortran/acinclude.m4 within a libquadmath check. > > Talking about libquadmath, its libquadmath/configure.ac has the same issue. I have to check that. I was able to build libquadmath without errors, but I didn't look at config.log, so I may have missed issues. > * * * > > To your patch: > > First, I am far from being a configure expert and thus would like if > a build maintainer could have a look (or Janne, who seems to have also > more experience.) Sure. > I don't understand the purpose of the line: > > +# Check for libm > +AC_CHECK_LIB([m],[sin]) > > Except of printing to stdout and to the logs whether -lm is available and > contains "sin", it doesn't seem to do anything. If that's the purpose, I think > it needs a better comment. If not, I would like to know its purpose. The purpose is to check for the presence of -libm. If found, all tests will be linked with -lm, which is necessary for the following tests on regular platform. Indeed, I should improve the documentation. > Otherwise, the patch looks fine to me - but as written, I would like if > someone else (build maintainer, Janne, ...) could have a look. Thank you for your prompt reply, Tristan.
