On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> I've been building successfully with setting:
> export ac_cv_func_freelocale=no
> export ac_cv_func_newlocale=no
> export ac_cv_func_uselocale=no
It's a workaround really, though surely one that works; I've done things
like this myself regularly, especially for cross-compilation where the
right setting cannot be determined by `configure' and the default is
either wrong or bails out (it used to be the case with type sizes, very
painful, until a clever trick was invented with one version of autoconf).
Overall a plain `/path/to/configure' invocation is expected to do the
right thing though for whatever the default configuration of a software
piece is.
Also by "building successfully" do you mean someone has actually ported
libgfortran locally for VAX FP support, or is it just with NetBSD ports
that use IEEE-754 FP?
> I think the code to avoid these functions already exists, but just the
> configure tests need tuning.
I chose to update actual code instead as I found it more straightforward.
Fix committed now; commit beb9afcaf146 ("libgfortran: Verify the presence
of all functions for POSIX 2008 locale").
> Also, this is amazing work!
Thanks, appreciated, although I've been doing this kind of things for
some 20 years now (and much longer when it comes to all kinds of computer
programming and fiddling with microprocessors), so it's bread and butter
to me really. I'd have had to switch fields by now if I used not to get
such stuff right.
Maciej
