From 6a063a44a68edb0c86c6ca379cb624e78c5132a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Federico Perini <federico.perini@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:26:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] do not check for existing %MSMPI_BIN% directory

---
 src/fpm_meta.f90 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/fpm_meta.f90 b/src/fpm_meta.f90
index 6e35ec5812..96c1148854 100644
--- a/src/fpm_meta.f90
+++ b/src/fpm_meta.f90
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ logical function msmpi_init(this,compiler,error) result(found)
 
         endif
 
-        if (allocated(error) .or. .not.exists(bindir)) then
+        if (allocated(error)) then
             call fatal_error(error,'MS-MPI error: MS-MPI Runtime directory is missing. '//&
                                    'check environment variable %MSMPI_BIN% or that the folder is in %PATH%.')
             return