On 2009 Feb 3, at 16:48, Tim Jenness wrote:
> I'm confused. The only time I've seen errors like that is when
> libtool could not recognize the fortran compiler. But if you've set
> $FC and $F77 I don't know why it's happening. Sending this to the
> wider list.
>> libtool: link: unable to infer tagged configuration
>> libtool: link: specify a tag with `--tag'
Aha! I recognise that incomprehensible error message. One of the
FAQs in SSN/78 is
> I've just been told that libtool is ``unable to infer tagged
> configuration''. What on earth is that supposed to mean?
> I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean exactly, but what it
> seems to mean in practice is that libtool has become terribly
> confused about your compiler. Very probably, you forced ./configure
> to use a particular compiler by specifying one of the F77, FC or CC
> environment variables at configure time. You may have forgotten that
> you have that variable set.
> Alternatively, you may be unaware that that variable is set: a known
> manifestation of this problem is that the IRAF startup script sets
> F77 to be an IRAF-specific script, which works OK from the command-
> line (given that you want to use IRAF), but which leaves libtool in
> a confused heap.
>
> This problem has also been spotted in the form libtool: compile:
> specify a tag with `--tag', with apparently the same cause.
>
> See Section 2.1.5 for more discussion of these variables.
>
This is at <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/ssn78/ssn78.htx/N-a5b1.html
>. Buried in SSN/78 is possibly not the most usefully prominent
place for that to be.
Norman
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
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