Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

[Dale]

Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011, 10:28:47 schrieb Dale:
>
>> Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
>>
>>> Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2011, 14:58:56 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
>>>
>>>> Whether "many" operations are written in Fortran is immaterial. What
>>>> matters to me is whether any on my system are. If they aren't, I
>>>> don't need a Fortran compiler and I'd rather not waste system
>>>> resources on building one.
>>>>
>>> Try euse -I fortran.
>>> If anything besides gcc pops up, you should have one.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Michael
>>>
>> That doesn't appear to work like it should then.  I get this:
>>
>> root@fireball / # euse -I fortran
>> global use flags (searching: fortran)
>> ************************************************************
>> [+ CD   ] fortran - Adds support for fortran (formerly f77)
>>
>> Installed packages matching this USE flag:
>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
>>
>> local use flags (searching: fortran)
>> ************************************************************
>> no matching entries found
>> root@fireball / #
>>
>> Thing is, I know a couple packages use it on this rig because I just had
>> to recompile them.  Cantor and R are two that I recall.
>>
>> Maybe it is because it is not a option in the list?  The USE flag that is.
>>
> Iirc you had problems with -fortran, because you have packages that really
> need fortran. My suggestion was for people like Peter, who have no problems
> without fortran. It shows only packages which could perform better, if a
> fortran compiler is available and otherwise fallback to a C implementation. At
> least, I think it does :)
>
>
>> Dale
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> Michael
>
>

Thing is, I switched it back and programs on here now need fortran to 
build.  So, euse is not reporting it but R and Cantor won't build 
without fortran.  Basically, euse should also report R and cantor but it 
isn't.  If mine isn't reporting that, then Peter's may not either.

Dale

:-)  :-)