Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Robert Schwebel <ro...@sc...> [2003-04-01 09:46]:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: 
> > Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better
> > this next release will be!
> 
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> robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> ./configure
> [...]
> robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> make
> [...]
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/scstubs.lo
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c -o scstubs.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> mv -f .libs/scstubs.lo scstubs.lo
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile    -c -o strutil.lo `test -f 'strutil.f' || echo './'`strutil.f
> libtool: unrecognized option `-c'
> Try `libtool --help' for more information.
> make[3]: *** [strutil.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings/f77'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ----------8<----------
> 
> With --disable-f77 it compiles. 

Thank you for this valuable bug report.  Indeed, our configure logic
regarding the Fortran 77 compiler is broken, since it proceeds happily even
if no compiler is found.  I am going to fix this in CVS.

In the meantime, since you are using Debian, configuring with --enable-f77
should work for you after "apt-get install g77".

-- 
Rafael