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Bob Friesenhahn wrote: | On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: | |>I can't remove this because the dist will fail without it. This rule descends |>into the testdirs and runs their configure scripts, in order that when the |>dist rule proper calls upon the testdir Makefile's own dist rule, the Makefile |>is already there. |> |>| Besides, it often doesn't work and it can take a very long time: |> |>This must be because you haven't executed the testsuite: Notice that the |>configure is only run for each testsuite Makefiles (@DIST_MAKEFILE_LIST@) that |>is out of date. |> |>| 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 |> |>This is telling you that you haven't tested the f77 support in libtool before |>you are rolling a distribution. | | | Even though the OS happens to be Linux, there is no Fortran install on | this box. It would be smart for the Libtool tests to change language | tests from "Fail" to "Untested" if the required compiler is not | available. That way 'make check' can succeed based on the available | compilers. This would seem to be a requirement for non-GCC | environments.
Agreed. Well volunteered :-)
Cheers,
Gary.
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