make[1]: exec(f77) failed (No such file or directory) on DragonFly BSD

Question

I get this error when trying to compile html-xml-utils-6.9 on DragonFly BSD. Funny thing is, when doing grep -r f77 in the source directory, the result is empty. So no such option is in the constructed Makefile after ./configure.

This is my configure output: http://pastebin.com/4tKEXQKG

I tried to do alias f77="gfortran48", but the problem remains. gfortran48 is an installed compiler, I've checked with man gfortran48.

My full error output:

/home/olle2/Downloads/html-xml-utils-6.9$ make
make  all-am
f77    -O -c html.e
make[1]: exec(f77) failed (No such file or directory)
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /home/olle2/Downloads/html-xml-utils-6.9
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /home/olle2/Downloads/html-xml-utils-6.9

Any ideas?

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Answer 1

Solved with this line:

./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -liconv" && gmake && echo $?

(gmake instead of make gives saner error messages.)

Thanks to #dragonflybsd IRC channel!

Answer 2

Aliases aren't available to non-interactive shells generally so an alias isn't the right solution to this problem.

The default FC make variable is f77 so that is likely what is in use in the makefile. This also indicates your solution.

Try make FC=gfortran48 or similar.