Re: Fix `make dist' on systems with no F9x compiler

[Noah Misch]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Noah Misch wrote on Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:52:24AM CEST:
> > `make dist' needs every test demo directory configured.  If the system has 
> > no
> > F90 compiler, tests/fcdemo/configure always fails.  This patch adds an 
> > option to
> > that configure script that suppresses the potentially fatal check.  We then 
> > use
> > the option when configuring a test demo directory for the sake of `make 
> > dist'.
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  Say, why not m4_pushdef([AC_MSG_ERROR],
> [something nonfatal]) ... m4_popdef([AC_MSG_ERROR]) instead?
> Just curious, I haven't tested or anything.

The fatal error is appropriate when fcdemo-conf.test configures this directory,
so we need a way to control it at `configure' time, not `autoconf' time.  There
certainly may be a solution more elegant than the one I proposed.