Re: Can we make gfortran the default Fortran?

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

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> 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"?

"Use a consistent compiler if possible" is always the best. Noone
implemented that though.

Joerg