Re: Fix illegal tab character in Fortran language test.

[Eric Blake]

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[adding the list, which would have been the more appropriate place to send
this]

According to Thomas Jahns on 9/4/2009 3:50 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> in commit 58a97ecfca0650c90b5dffacd3565c2647f37f0d of the autoconf repository,
> you replaced several occurrences of blanks with tabs.
> 
> Unfortunately TAB is not a legal character in Fortran source and one of the
> lines affected by your change is part of a Fortran print statement which
> therefore does no longer compile with e.g. gfortran -Werror. Thus I wanted to
> ask you to apply the attached patch.

Thanks for the report (it's especially nice when a bug report comes with a
patch, as well as a commit id where the regression was introduced).  Shows
how little I know about Fortran (and I guess things like this show why
AC_FC_FREEFORM is so important in the first place, since modern Fortran
has followed the lead of C in its change to allow freeform whitespace).  I
tweaked your patch to add a comment and quadrigraph to prevent my editor
from regressing again, added THANKS, NEWS, and ChangeLog edits, and
applied it.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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>From 87c5dbd357ea16629300d46c93dc4b8239a01ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Jahns <jahns@dkrz.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:48:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix illegal tab character in Fortran source.

---
 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 b/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4
index 93b5f9d..99e4b6b 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ do
   program freeform
        ! FIXME: how to best confuse non-freeform compilers?
        print *, 'Hello ', &
-          'world.'
+          'world.'
        end],
                    [ac_cv_fc_freeform=$ac_flag; break])
 done
-- 
1.5.6.5