Hello Andreas,
Please keep the mailing list in Cc:, thanks.
* Andreas Kabel wrote on Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:12:58PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >But say, what's the reason you want to call this conditionally?
> >Your package may or may not use a compiler?
>
> I need to make a case distinction -- depending on whether or not
> multi-processor support is enabled (./configure --enable-mpi), I need to
> go through different sets of compilers (e.g., pathCC and g++ for
> single-processor, mpiCC and mpCC for multi-processor); so my original
> configure.ac looked something like
>
> if test "$mpidisabled" = "yes"; then
> AC_PROG_CC([pathCC xlC g++])
> else
> AC_PROG_CC([mpiCC mpixlC])
> fi
Try this:
if test "$mpidisabled" = "yes"; then
list_of_compilers="pathCC xlC g++"
else
list_of_compilers="mpiCC mpixlC"
fi
AC_PROG_CC([$list_of_compilers]]
Also, you could consider the ACX_MPI module from the Autoconf Macro
Archive for MPI compilers and associated changes.
Cheers,
Ralf
