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Re: [semi-related patch] Re: issues with configuring the trunk to build Fortran
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:08:10PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> 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.
...which is to complain that the requested language is missing. There's
only the one error message; right now all failure modes just set a flag,
which later triggers the message that started this thread.
Let's come back to Ada.
I feel that if the user's source tree contains f95, then they mean to
build it. if they don't, then they should use --enable-languages to
deselect it. Silently skipping F95 because of missing libraries seems
kind of harshly surprising.
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