Re: Patch for Portland compiler support

[Jeff Squyres]

On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > Some of the consumers of our software use the Portland Group compilers
> > (http://www.pgroup.com/).  Libtool 1.5.x doesn't seem to recognize
> > these compilers, and therefore doesn't always do the Right Things.
>
> Libtool doesn't know about Portland's compilers at all (so far).

Gotcha.

> > I have *barely* dived into the libtool source, but I have come up with
> > a patch for the current CVS branch-1-5 that seems to make libtool do
> > the Right Things for pgcc on Linux (I didn't try for an analogue on 
> > the
> > CVS trunk for the 2.x series).  Could this patch be considered for
> > future releases of Libtool?
>
> Actually, I'm wondering about the name.  There has once been a pentium
> gcc, abbreviated pgcc as well.  How unfortunate :(
> I don't know how much the pentium gcc is still in use, but the fact 
> that
> this one is not meant deserves at least a comment within the m4 
> snippet.
> Looking at its webpage, it looks pretty dead, though.

Yikes!  I had no idea about pentium-gcc.  I trust your judgment on this 
one -- if it's ok with you guys to ignore, I'm happy to ignore it, too. 
 ;-)

> (Fortunately, gcc on linux understands all the variable values you've
> submitted so far.  We might just get away with it anyway.)
>
> But certainly there will be more problems with pgcc?  What about pgf77
> and pgCC?  Could you or one of your consumers be bothered to try
> branch-2-0 of libtool (1.9f will do fine as well) and report us more
> possible problems its testsuite reports (VERBOSE=x output for failed
> tests is good), so that we can support it right, not only halfway?
> (This is the more interesting for you since we won't bother much with
> libtool-1.5 any more as soon as 2.0 is out).

Shirley -- I can do this right now.  I'll post back shortly.

> Do you/your consumers use pgcc on Windows?  That's probably going to be
> a whole different (and scarier) story.

Unfortunately, no.  We have a Cygwin port, but to my knowledge people 
only use gcc with it there.

> > [snippage]
> > Please forgive me if this patch is egregiously wrong -- if it is, any
> > advice on making it Right would be tremendously appreciated!
>
> Looks good.  The branch-2-0 equivalent would be similar -- just grep 
> for
> ccc in libtool/m4/libtool.m4.

Will do.

I'll check into CC/f77 issues and post back with a new set of patches 
-- for 1.5.x and 2.x.

Thanks!

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