-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Johansson on 5/11/2009 10:30 AM: > Hello, Hello, and sorry for a delayed reply, > I wonder if there is an easy way to test if there is a Fortran compiler > available. > > We are using GSL, which needs to be linked with a cblas library. To test > which cblas library to use, we employ the ACX_BLAS macro > (http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/acx_blas.html) and if nothing is found > we fall back on libgslcblas provided with GSL. The problem is that > ACX_BLAS exits with error when there is no fortran compiler available > due to a call to AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS. Therefore, we'd like to test if > fortran is available and if not avoid calling fortran related things. If > possible, we'd prefer to avoid adding fortran as an requirement for our > package and instead when fortran is not available for example fall back > on libgslcblas which is completely independent of fortran code. Is there > a macro available within Autoconf or Autoconf Archive that I'm missing? I'm not very familiar with Fortran myself, but I know that libtool has tricks for conditionally using fortran when available; maybe you may have more success asking on the libtool lists for ideas. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpWukIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCYEwCgvLmDNnxaJ2sEGQ2FsfRctBSq sPoAoIO4mXujqYKko66yU9YlceMSsYdM =ql7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
