Re: Concensus on PKGSRC_FORTRAN?=gfortran?

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 2020-03-25 15:56, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Should we consider making PKGSRC_FORTRAN?=gfortran the default for 
> bulk builds? Why or why not?
>
> John
I do so for all my builds on CentOS, Darwin, and NetBSD.

g95 is essentially useless for high performance computing at this 
point.  The machine code it produces is far slower than a modern 
gfortran as it doesn't know about current instruction sets and the 
optimizer is ancient.

I think the only thing to watch out for is people using platforms where 
the gcc packages don't build, but some of their builds require Fortran.  
As long as g95 is still available, we'd only be forcing them to override 
a default, though, not taking away their ability to function.

    JB