Re: Testsuite failure in AC_F77_MAIN

[Pavel Roskin]

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > I understand that AC_TRY_LINK has no chance to clean up after itself if
> > you are using "break" in the argument. The same applies to
> > AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC call from AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN.
>
> In that case, you should similarly fix _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING

Why? It already has "rm -f cf77_test* conftest*" near the end. You mean
it's not guaranteed to work? By the way, the macros starting with _AC are
not required to clean up as long as their callers do.

I'm applying the patch as is. Two notes for the future:

1) It should be possible to test AC_REQUIRED macros, perhaps by adding a
flag to mktests.sh. Many of them may forget to clean up.

2) Maybe Autoconf macros could use m4 to keep track of temporary files
they create, like AT_DATA in the testsuite. This way, "break" could be
replaced with AS_BREAK expanding to "rm -f TEMPFILES; break"

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin