Re: Can we make gfortran the default Fortran?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-12-19 at 12:44 GMT, Benny Siegert wrote:

> We recently had PR pkg/52838 as another instance where something
> failed to compile using the default g95, and working with
> PKGSRC_FORTRAN=gfortran. We have been telling people several times to
> set that so that their build issues go away.
> 
> We have had this discussion before, and I remember (some of) the
> arguments being along the line of "when it works, g95 compiles much
> faster". However, I argue that fast-but-broken is a strictly worse
> default than slow-but-working.
> 
> My proposal is:
> 
> 1. Make gfortran the default
> 2. Add documentation (pkgsrc guide?) that g95 may be selected as a
> lightweight alternative.
> 
> Thoughts?

What are the consequences of building with a different
GFORTRAN_VERSION (currently defaulting to lang/gcc48) than the primary
compiler?

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