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

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

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

From: Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/47503: Request automated addition of gfortran to base 
compiler set
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:15:29 +1300

 On Saturday 26 January 2013 04:05:03 you wrote:
 >  I would agree that it *should* be fixed, but it's an awfully squirrelly
 >  problem and I think it would be much easier and much safer to build
 >  gfortran as part of the base.
 > 
 >  I've been wrangling with these issues for over a year and a complete
 >  base compiler suite seems like the only clean, safe solution.
 
 By default pkgsrc uses g95 as its fortran in the situation that gcc is the 
 base compiler but no fortran is provided.  Does this not work for you?  
 g95 builds and works fine for me on ArchLinux as well as NetBSD.
 
 cheers
 mark