Hello Vincent, thanks for the report.
* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:51:25PM CET: > I can reproduce it under Mac OS X (with autoconf 2.65). > > Note that this is a regression. On a Debian/stable (lenny) machine > with autoconf 2.61-8, there is no such problem. [...] > On 2010-02-05 14:14:56 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In MPFR, we had in configure.in: > > > > if test -n "$variable_indefinie" ; then > > AC_PROG_CXX([g++]) > > AC_PROG_F77([g77]) > > AC_PROG_CXXCPP > > fi > > > > This doesn't seem to be forbidden according to the autoconf > > documentation. Even though the test > > > > test -n "$variable_indefinie" > > > > is always false, the configure script checks for the GNU Fortran 77 > > compiler. Confirmed with Libtool 2.2.6b. This issue is a bug in Libtool, and fixed in git Libtool; the fix is this commit: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=57013d8e689ed32f0a4fb8d3b0549ed5e793e2d6> Cheers, Ralf