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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: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:20:10
Message-Id: 4E03BB43.2050404@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 17:23:44 Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I
6 >> suppose) the KDE profile has included it as a default.
7 >>
8 > So it seems. I've just tried "USE=-fortran emerge -upDvN world" and the only
9 > thing that would be remerged because of fortran is gcc. So I'm going to put
10 > -fortran into make.conf and see what breaks.
11 >
12 >
13
14 It will break several things. This is what I just went through. It
15 appears that if you emerge kde-meta, you have to have a fortran type
16 compiler. So, you may as well keep what you got if it is working. When
17 I started going down this road, I thought I could just disable fortran
18 and have less packages installed. That is not the case. I removed
19 fortran then had to replace that with even more packages than I had to
20 begin with.
21
22 If it works with fortran turned on, I'd leave it alone. With hindsight,
23 I should have left well enough alone anyway. It wasn't hurting a
24 thing. Watch the elog messages. It will tell you at some point to
25 either enable fortran or emerge some other package that I forget the
26 name of. That one package pulled several dependencies on my rig. YMMV.
27
28 Just my $0.02 for whatever that's worth.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>