Re: Can we make gfortran the default Fortran?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 01:44:26PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> 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.

No, the main argument is that it interacts badly with the rest of the
system because gfortran isn't a Fortran compiler, but a full version of
GCC with a random set of languages. As such, it forces its own version
of libgcc_s, libstdc++ and whatever into the search path. G95 at least
only craps the libgcc_s into the search path and that could even be
killed moderately easy.

Joerg