Hello, * Eve-Marie Devaliere wrote on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:39:14PM CET: > > > Which kinds of flags do you need support for? > lots... :( > For example, in their original make.macros they had > # Compiler settings for DEBUG builds > LINUX_COMMON_FLAGS_GFORTRAN_DEBUG = -pg > LINUX_FLAGS_GFORTRAN_DEBUG = > "FC_FLAGS= -c \ > -fbounds-check \ > -fconvert=big-endian \ > -ffpe-trap=overflow,zero \ > -ffree-form \ > -fno-second-underscore \ > -frecord-marker=4 \ > -ggdb \ > -static \ > -Wall \ > ${INCLUDES} \ > ${LINUX_COMMON_FLAGS_GFORTRAN_DEBUG}" \ Well, we've already clarified that you should drop -c. For any gfortran-specific flag that there is no good macro for, you can start off by wrapping it in this if clause: if test $ac_cv_fc_compiler_gnu = yes; then FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -fbounds-check -fconvert=big-endian ..." fi Remarks to the flags you are using: - Debugging: -ggdb is GCC specific; you can use -g fairly portably. - Symbol underscoring: Autoconf's support for this currently only supports a kind of different strategy: allow the user (the person running configure) to set the desired underscoring strategy by passing FCFLAGS as configure argument; the linking from different languages can then be achieved as described in 'info Autoconf --index AC_FC_WRAPPERS'. - Free-form is already handled by AC_FC_FREEFORM. The necessary flag is added to the FCFLAGS variable if you call that macro in configure.ac. > ok, yes I think I have seen explanations about that... from what I tried > though, if I say > AC_FC_FREEFORM() > nothing happens as far as creating a 'free flag'... I thought it would > find the appropriate one...? > I need to say AC_FC_FREEFORM([],[FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -free"]) to add it > but of course that will work for intel compiler but not for others.... No, it should be sufficient to just use AC_FC_FREEFORM. > > > If you can formulate your needs in such a way, then the next hurdle is > > > to overcome the M4 language and a few Autoconf building block macros > > > like AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and AC_LINK_IFELSE. We can help with the latter > > > if the former is clear. > Thanks. I tried to do a locate to see if I could figure out what is done > for AC_FC_FREEFORM but I couldn't find it.... would you have an example > to suggest to put me on the way? Please try this in an empty directory: cat >configure.ac <<\END AC_INIT AC_PROG_FC AC_FC_FREEFORM echo "FCFLAGS is $FCFLAGS" AC_OUTPUT END autoconf ./configure The output should indicate that the flag has been added. Please post the output and config.log if that isn't the case. Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf