On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Bock <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> this is really a hack that was supposed to address something else. I agree
> that it's not really necessary and should be removed.
>
> We do have some logic in
configure.ac that should address the fixed versus
> free command line argument issue, but we don't have a case for xlf yet. I
> will see whether we can simply remove the test whether FC == F77 or if not
> add a case to the command line argument check.
>
> nick
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:33 -0500, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>
> I don't understand the configure test that returns this error:
> configure: error: F77 (mpixlf77_r) and F90 (mpixlf95_r) compilers are
> different. This is not going to work.
>
> Unlike other Fortran compilers, XLF is fairly strict about fixed
> versus free source form and other F77-F95 syntax differences, hence
> distinguishing these two compilers is important. They both have the
> same xlf backend but one instruments -qfixed and the other does not.
> Hence the objects generated with them will be compatible.
>
> I can manually hack around this but I'd rather have a workaround in
> configure such as --ignore-f77-f95-mismatch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>