[CMake] Fortran question

[Karl Merkley]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Brad King wrote:

> Karl Merkley wrote:
>> I have a simple Fortran project that I am testing with cmake.
>>
>> PROJECT(multi_patch Fortran)
>>
>> SET( SRCS
>>    aAdjKeep.f
>>    Main_mp.f
>>   )
>>
>> ADD_EXECUTABLE(multi_patch ${SRCS})
>>
>> However, the first file is a Fortran 95 module and when I try to  
>> build I get
>> the following error.
>>
>> Scanning dependencies of target multi_patch
>> Building Fortran object CMakeFiles/multi_patch.dir/aAdjKeep.o
>> Error copying Fortran module "for".  Tried "FOR.mod" and "for.mod".
>>
>> If I just do a
>>    gfortran -c aAdjKeep.f
>> it compiles and creates aadjkeep.mod.
>>
>> What is the status of the Fortran support.  Where is a good  
>> starting place to
>> look in the code base to see what is going on?
>
> Unfortunately we don't have time to debug/fix problems with the module
> support for Fortran ourselves.  Use "grep" to look for references to
> fortran in the CMake/Source directory.  In particular you might  
> look for
> "cmake_copy_f90_mod" to see code related to this error message.
>
> -Brad


I thought I had seen someplace where Fortran support was not high on  
the priority list.  I may not like it but I understand.

I have isolated the problem and submitted a bug on it (#3564).  The  
problem seems to be that the cmake parser finds the Fortran keyword  
module inside of a comment line.  Fixing this is probably pretty easy  
for a flex/bison guru but that is _not_ my area of expertise.  If  
someone gets a chance to look at this I would appreciate it.

    Karl