* Eve-Marie Devaliere wrote on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:37:04PM CET: > first of all even with my > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac (before macro calls) > and ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I m4 in Makefile.am (top one) , I still need to run aclocal with the '-I m4' else it doesn't recognize > AX_F90_MODULE_EXTENSION and AX_F90_MODULE_FLAG in my m4 folder... If you run 'autoreconf -v', it should call aclocal with the '-I m4' flag for you. > Then, I still get > ./configure: line 3206: -I: command not found > checking fortran 90 modules inclusion flag... -I > checking fortran 90 modules extension... mod > ./configure: line 4716: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > ./configure: line 4716: ` $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6' Please show the configure.ac that you have. Please also show the output of autoconf --version automake --version > The lines in my configure.ac that I am guessing are raising the error are > if test "x$ax_f90_modext" != xunknown; then > FC_MODEXT=$ax_f90_modext > else > FC_MODEXT=$ax_f90_modext# isn't it the same?? > fi > AC_SUBST([FC_MODEXT]) Yeah, that was a bug of mine, the else part should probably just be FC_MODEXT= > I am confused because the if and else seem to do the same > action.... If I get rid of the above section of the configure.ac file > configure runs fine... > > in configure the snippet that crashes is: > if ${ac_cv_prog_DUMPBIN+:} false; then : > $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6 > else > if test -n "$DUMPBIN"; then > ac_cv_prog_DUMPBIN="$DUMPBIN" # > ..... > > Would anybody have an idea on what is going on? Sounds like a quoting error happening earlier in configure. But I cannot easily tell. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf