Re: Can we make gfortran the default Fortran?

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 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.

Maybe. But we are already using a pkgsrc gcc on a number of platforms.
How does the answer change if we had something like "do not use g95 if
using pkgsrc gcc, instead use that Fortran compiler"?

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Benny