[MOAB-dev] Requires fortran compiler?

[Barry Smith]

   Does MOAB really require a Fortran compiler?

~/Src/petsc  barry/xolotl $ open -a Emacs  extern./configure  --download-mpich --with-cc=clang --with-cxx=clang++ --with-clanguage=c++ --with-fc=0 --download-netcdf --download-hdf5 --download-moab
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             Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                       
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===============================================================================                                                                                                                                                                  Running configure on MOAB; this may take several minutes                                                                                                                                                                             ===============================================================================                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       *******************************************************************************
         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
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Error running configure on MOAB: Could not execute "cd /Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/externalpackages/moab-4.7.0pre && ./configure --prefix=/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl CC="/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl/bin/mpicc" CFLAGS=" -fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -g3 -fno-inline -O0 " CXX="/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl/bin/mpicxx" CXXFLAGS="  -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -g  -fPIC  " --disable-fortran --disable-fc --disable-f77 --disable-f90 --enable-shared --with-mpi=/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl --with-hdf5=/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl --with-netcdf=/Users/barrysmith/Src/PETSc/arch-xolotl":
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... sed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-fc, --disable-f77, --disable-f90
configure: error: Cannot find MPI compiler.  Try specifying $FC

This is using the nightly 

    self.downloadpath      = 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/'
    self.downloadname      = 'moab'
    self.downloadfilename  = 'moab'
    self.downloadversion   = 'nightly'
    self.downloadext       = 'tar.gz'

version of moab. 

If not I suggest you support the various disable flags for the fortran compiler (fortran compilers are a pain on Macs if not needed).

   Barry