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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:08:51
Message-Id: 4E05CEDC.6060006@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:29:12 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>>> I guess my first post was correct after all. Enable fortran USE flag
6 >>>> and keep things as it was before it got changed. It was working
7 >>>> fine.
8 >>>>
9 >>> Isn't that flag enabled by default? All you have yo do is not disable
10 >>> it.
11 >>>
12 >
13 >> You seem to have forgot the dev had changed it. Since it got noticed
14 >> and all the dev changed it back in about a day or so. So, it was
15 >> enabled, got disabled by a dev then got enabled again by the same dev.
16 >>
17 > ISTR reading some mention of that. Do you mean the profile was changed?
18 > That sounds a bit naughty, changing a profile should be done on a version
19 > bump IMO.
20 >
21 >
22 >
23
24 I don't know for sure where it was changed but the dev that did the
25 change posted this:
26
27 > We restructured the dependency chain for fortran support, which includes
28 > a compile test now. The failure can be seen above.
29 >
30 > The Problem was in short, USE=fortran was enabled by default for linux
31 > arches, but people tend to disable it. Depending on gcc[fortran] doesn't
32 > work completely as gcc:4.4[fortran] and gcc:4.5[-fortran] with gcc-4.5
33 > select can be installed, which would full fill the dependency but
34 > nevertheless doesn't give a working compiler.
35 >
36 > So now packages depend on virtual/fortran and use an eclass to check for
37 > a working compiler. So if you see this message, this means you somehow
38 > worked around gcc[fortran].
39 >
40 >
41 > justin
42 >
43
44 That make sense?
45
46 Dale
47
48 :-) :-)

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