-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I'm the maintainer of the scientific simulation package ESPResSo[1]. ESPResSo is a package that uses parallelization via MPI[2]. MPI usually has to be supported by the compiler, i.e. it is not just a library. In many cases, the compiled program is not executable on the build host, as it has to be run via a queuing system or the like. Therefore, from the autoconf point of view, the build process is a cross-compilation. After updateing to autoconf 2.61, I now get the following warning from configure when it tries to find "ranlib" during this cross-compilation: - --- WARNING: In the future, Autoconf will not detect cross-tools whose name does not start with the host triplet. If you think this configuration is useful to you, please write to autoconf@xxxxxxxx - --- This new behaviour would be very annoying for ESPResSo, as in the most cases, the standard tools (like ranlib) can be used to handle the MPI executables. It would be pretty labourious if it would be necessary to explicitly name all the tools on the configure command line. Therefore, I would strongly vote to either keep the old behaviour, or at least add a macro that allows to introduce the old behaviour! Best regards, and keep up the good work, Olaf Lenz References: [1] http://espressowiki.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8S0ptQ3riQ3oo/oRAhWkAKCTWFnEo3WYrLf/Fiyn4oEgVdj1ewCgiGIO qKZzwbtPvvdNoNA5Hv8BLYw= =zoqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
