Re: gfortran: 10 for netbsd-10, and getting a full dependency on gfortran in a meta package

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 6/13/23 08:02, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 2) On NetBSD 10 (not arm), gfortran.mk chooses gcc7.  I added
>
>    +# On NetBSD 10, default to gcc 10 to match base, instead of 7.
>    +.if ${OPSYS} == "NetBSD" && empty(OS_VERSION:M[0-9].*)
>    +POSSIBLE_GFORTRAN_VERSION=     10
>    +.endif
>
> and then it defaults to 10.  Any objections to committing?   It's a
> little close to freeze, but it seems broken to drag in an old version.
>
> Other approaches?

I think gfortran should always match base, if possible.  The GCC project
does not guarantee binary compatibility across major versions, though
it's generally not a problem these days.