Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

[Patrick Welche]

Sorry I disappeared for a while.. I just ran the old AC_F77_WRAPPERS
test with source checked out just now, and it fails once again (rather than
just assuming the compiler is broken) How can I help take this further?

(and BTW testsuite -h doesn't print usage anymore)

Cheers,

Patrick

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:05:40AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> The problem is a conflict between the REQUIRE and the LANG mechanisms.
> It is a grave bug (oops, sorry, I meant serious :), and must be fixed.
> Basically if you have two macros, AC_F77_1 and AC_F77_2, requiring to
> be run with a Fortran context, then with
> 
> AC_DEFUN([AC_F77_1],
> [AC_LANG_PUSH([Fortran 77])
> # Blah blah 1
> AC_LANG_POP
> ])
> 
> 
> AC_DEFUN([AC_F77_2],
> [AC_LANG_PUSH([Fortran 77])
> AC_REQUIRE([AC_F77_1])
> # Blah blah 2
> AC_LANG_POP
> ])
> 
> 
> and you call the latter, then it sets the current LANG to F77, then
> requires AC_F77_1 which will be expanded *before* the code currently
> emitted, and in particular *before* the code that has just been
> emitted for F77, i.e., ac_ext=f etc.
> 
> But when expanding AC_F77_1, it sees it should switch to the Fortran
> 77 language, which is useless since the current language is precisely
> Fortran 77.  So the ac_ext=f code is not emitted, which results in
> AC_PROG_F77 being run in a C sh context.
> 
> Sure, removing the AC_LANG optimization is one way.  I'd like to take
> a couple of days thinking more about this.
> 
> Nevertheless, this is an excellent candidate for the test suite!
> Thanks!
> 
> Oh, BTW, the `right workaround' definitely consists in wrapping your
> Fortran 77 section with AC_LANG_PUSH(Fortran 77)/AC_LANG_POP.