On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Noah Misch wrote on Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:52:24AM CEST: > > `make dist' needs every test demo directory configured. If the system has > > no > > F90 compiler, tests/fcdemo/configure always fails. This patch adds an > > option to > > that configure script that suppresses the potentially fatal check. We then > > use > > the option when configuring a test demo directory for the sake of `make > > dist'. > > Thanks for the patch. Say, why not m4_pushdef([AC_MSG_ERROR], > [something nonfatal]) ... m4_popdef([AC_MSG_ERROR]) instead? > Just curious, I haven't tested or anything.
The fatal error is appropriate when fcdemo-conf.test configures this directory, so we need a way to control it at `configure' time, not `autoconf' time. There certainly may be a solution more elegant than the one I proposed.
