Re: toolchain/47503: Request automated addition of gfortran to base compiler set

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/47503; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/47503: Request automated addition of gfortran to base
 compiler set
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:30:02 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:40:01AM +0000, jwbacon%tds.net@localhost wrote:
  > The pkgsrc gcc packages are not viable at this point, since they
  > only work on NetBSD.
 
 Not AFAIK...
 
  > It would be hard to match the various base toolchain versions
  > anyway, which leads to mixing toolchains in package builds.
 
 At least in theory this shouldn't matter.
 
  > Finally, it would be messy to use the base
  > gfortran on some platforms and a gcc package on others.
 
 This is the whole point of the compiler logic in pkgsrc, though.
 
 pkgsrc is at least in theory capable of installing a FORTRAN compiler
 of your choice, more or less on its own, if and only if the base
 FORTRAN compiler is nonexistent or unsuitable.
 
 If this isn't working (or doesn't know about gfortran vs. g77 vs. f2c
 or whatnot) it should be fixed.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost