Re: install/43191: USE_LANGUAGES+=fortran breaks bootstrap

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43191; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/43191: USE_LANGUAGES+=fortran breaks bootstrap
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:53:27 -0700

 On Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 04:15:04 AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >
 > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:35:01AM +0000, George Georgalis wrote:
 >  >  okay, probably I was only told to add fortran to the variable
 >  >  USE_LANGUAGES
 > 
 > Maybe these messages should be disabled except when PKG_DEVELOPER is
 > set?
 
 I would suggest that if there is any authority behind a warning
 or message then it should be referred to. I searched the internet
 for USE_LANGUAGES and found lots of problems but no definition of
 what/why it is. All I can see is how one might set it differently.
 
 Does USE_LANGUAGES come from gcc, pkgsrc or something else?
 Citing "(RFC xxxx)" "(PKGSRC Guide 5.1.1)" "(author)" or whatever
 could go a long way toward a solution since people reading stderr
 probably didn't know there was a violation in the first place.