Re: issues with configuring the trunk to build Fortran

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Aug 25, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Joe Buck wrote:

> Attempting to configure the trunk on an i686 gnu/linux box, with
> --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,f95
>
> fails.  I get
>
> ...
> checking for correct version of gmp.h... yes
> checking for MPFR... no
> The following requested languages were not found: f95
>
> even though there is a gcc/fortran/config-lang.in file with the line
>
> language="f95"
>
> Doing some googling, it seems that MPFR is now required; if that is the
> issue, we should have a better failure message.  f95 is found; if the
> prerequisites are not present we should say so.


Should people read the installation instructions?
Well this is the reason why we get so many reports about using
sh in Solaris.

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski