Re: Can we make gfortran the default Fortran?

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On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:50:34PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 09:36:20PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > The big issue is libstdc++, not libgcc.
>  > 
>  > In the case of g95, the problem is actually libgcc_s.
> 
> So what's the solution then? An ELF binary linked against two
> incompatible versions of shared libgcc will never fully work.

For decades people have been shipping binary-only, dynamically
linked software for linux, relying on many of these libraries to
not unexpectedly fail at runtime.

I'm more skeptical of netbsd's backwards compatibility than libgcc.