[Ant-contrib-developers] RE: Problem compiling Fortran files using gcc compiler and cpptas ks

[Haig E. <ha...@ca...>]

Hello, my name is Haig. I have taken over the project from Patricia. I
understand that she had a couple of outstanding questions:
*	Currently, I have been using the g77 compiler and it runs quite
well. This question pertains to support for the g77 linker. I am using an
exec task to link FORTRAN programs since the option 'linker name = "g77"' is
not supported. Is this support in the works? Also, to extend this a little,
will there be support for specifying the linker (g77,f77,etc) as an option
in the source file? This would give me a great deal of flexibility.
*	I have noticed that sometimes the Dependencies.xml and the
History.xml files are not always generated and every time I issue "ant -f
mybuild.xml", all my source files get re-compiled and linked even thought
they have not changed and I already have the object files. I have also
noticed that even when the Dependencies.xml and History.xml are generated,
some of the files get re-compiled when they (and their dependencies) have
not changed. 
I have been able to narrow down this behaviour to my use of absolute paths.
When I use absolute paths, there is a complete re-compile and the 2 XML
files mentioned above are not generated. When I use relative paths, about
85% of my files behave correctly, but some, as mentioned above, get
re-compiled anyway. Is this related phenomenon related to my path use, or is
it just a coincidence? Has anyone else encountered this problem? I am using
the gcc compiler in cpptasks 1.0 beta 1.

All your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Haig