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Re: [semi-related patch] Re: issues with configuring the trunk to build Fortran
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:31:45PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:10:27PM -0400, Diego Novillo wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:05, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > checking for correct version of gmp.h... no
> > > configure: error: The GMP library is required for f95 but was not found.
> > >
> > > Comments? All okay (with changelog, of course)?
> > >
> > Will this emit an appropriate message when it finds GMP but with no MPFR
> > support?
>
> The test for MPFR sets have_gmp to false when it fails, presumably so
> that all later code only needs to check the GMP-related variable, which
> is probably a good thing.
>
> The error message can be tweaked ("GMP/MPFR not found, go read the install
> docs"), or we can check separate variables.
One message suffices:
configure: error: GMP with MPFR support is required to build f95
That's an appropriate message if the user specifically requested f95. But
what if he/she didn't? In that case, it seems that the handling should be
like that for Ada if no Ada compiler is found.