OK, here’s a stupid idea, but what about adding a “-altfcname” and/or “-altccname” flags for the configure script, just to pass the correct name to the script?
Gustavo Seabra
On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:18 PM, Timothy J Giese <timothyjgiese.gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2014 08:12 PM, Daniel Roe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Timothy J Giese <timothyjgiese.gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> If the user is compiling with the gcc toolchain, netcdf's configure may
>>> properly determine the use of gcc, but if the name of compiler is funny
>>> e.g., gfortran44,
>>> (or maybe because the compiler is REALLY old - I'm not sure of the
>>> exact reason for the problems I was seeing), problems can occur.
>>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, do you know exactly which compiler and version that you
>> had problems with?
>>
>
> GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.4 20100726 (Red Hat 4.4.4-13)
> (but named gfortran44 to not conflict with the version
> 4.1 compiler named gfortran)
>
>> We could add defines to the netcdf fortran configure line based on
>> specified compilers, but I hesitate to do that (right before release)
>> because then we're *always* overriding the netcdf configure script's logic.
>
> Right. Probably too late for release, but worth noting for the future.
>
> Another reason for NOT including it in configure2 is that there
> doesn't appear to be a natural way of changing to a
> funnily-named-compiler without having manually changed (for example)
> cc=gcc
> to
> cc=gccFunnyName
> within configure2 in the first place.
>
> ...but anyone who had the knowledge to make such a change would likely
> also be capable of compiling netcdff given the instruction to
> recompile netcdff with -DgFortran (or -DpgiFortran), as described above.
>
> Another possibility (for the future) would be to compile
> netcdff without the flag and *if it failed* retry a second time
> with the flag.
>
> -Tim
>
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