I'm forwarding this bug... I can reproduce it under Mac OS X (with autoconf 2.65).
Note that this is a regression. On a Debian/stable (lenny) machine with autoconf 2.61-8, there is no such problem. On 2010-02-05 14:14:56 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: autoconf > Version: 2.65-3 > Severity: normal > > In MPFR, we had in configure.in: > > if test -n "$variable_indefinie" ; then > AC_PROG_CXX([g++]) > AC_PROG_F77([g77]) > AC_PROG_CXXCPP > fi > > This doesn't seem to be forbidden according to the autoconf > documentation. Even though the test > > test -n "$variable_indefinie" > > is always false, the configure script checks for the GNU Fortran 77 > compiler. > > To reproduce the problem: > > $ svn checkout svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/tr...@6694 mpfr > $ cd mpfr > $ autoreconf -i > $ ./configure > > In the configure output: > > checking for g77... no > checking for xlf... no > checking for f77... no > checking for frt... no > checking for pgf77... no > checking for cf77... no > checking for fort77... no > checking for fl32... no > checking for af77... no > checking for xlf90... no > checking for f90... no > checking for pgf90... no > checking for pghpf... no > checking for epcf90... no > checking for gfortran... no > checking for g95... no > checking for xlf95... no > checking for f95... no > checking for fort... no > checking for ifort... no > checking for ifc... no > checking for efc... no > checking for pgf95... no > checking for lf95... no > checking for ftn... no > checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no > > But if one replaces > > AC_PROG_F77([g77]) > > by > > dnl AC_PROG_F77([g77]) > > and rerun "autoreconf -i" and ./configure, the above lines are > no longer there. There seems to be a similar problem for: > > AC_PROG_CXX([g++]) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org