Hi -- Yeah.... I mean the archive => transcripts. You asked me yesterday to do the compilation with gfortran by hand and I did and it worked. The thing is I know where the compiler is so before I do anything, I'll set the path as in set path = (/usr/local/ap/gcc4/bin/gfortran). Thats where the compiler is at and I also set the path to the lib as in set LD_LIBRARY_LIB /usr/local/ap/gcc4/lib so it works. Now, in the acinclude.m4 file, I have gone there to set the lib as well but I don't know if i'm doing it right but I just followed the way F77 was done for Sun compiler. Now, when i do autoconf and automake, everything goes well, now when I do ./configure --with-gfortran, I get errors on that line with AC_ARG_WITH([gfortran], ..........). I know the problem is with the [ if else condition], I looked up Bourne Shell yesterday and the format is if [ condition 1] then do action 1 else do action 2 fi the thing that confuses me most is that it doesn't have a semicolon (;) at the end of action 1 but since the AC_ARG_WITH macro handles this to the shell, I don't know. Here's it again: AC_ARG_WITH([gfortran], AC_HELP_STRING([--with-gfortran], [use GNU gfortran]), if [$withval = yes]; then F77=gfortran else F77=$withval fi ---- do I need a comma there or semicolon? fortran_gfortran=1) Thanks Stepan. -Ayodele a.k.a -Jimmy --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf