Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:05:01 -0700
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:24:07AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:12:22AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > >In a recent email to freebsd-current,
> > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-May/063435.html
> > >Alexander Kabaev stated that the import of GCC 4.1.1 is coming soon.
> > >
> > >I propose that Fortran support in the base system be removed
> > >when GCC 4.1.1 is imported.
> > >
> > 
> > Nominate an appropriate replacement in ports, and we'll add it to the
> > CD package set.  That replacement should then become the default
> > dependency in the ports tree.
> > 
> 
> ports/lang/gfortran
> 
> >From the Makefile
> 
> MASTERDIR=      ${.CURDIR}/../gcc41/
> PKGNAMESUFFIX=  -withfortran
> WITH_FORTRAN=   yes
> 
> Thus, this gfortran will be the one that is bundled with GCC 4.1.1
> by the FSF foundation.  I know this version works (for some definition
> of work) on i386 and amd64 FreeBSD.  I don't have access to other
> archs for testing.

As long as we get a binary named gfortran (and not gfortran41 or what
ever) I'm OK with moving this out of the base.

-- Brooks

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