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Re: Will people install gfortran in 4.0?
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:17:05AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tobias Schl?ter wrote:
> >> To add a concrete example, unlike g77 in earlier versions of GCC, gfortran
> >> is not and will not be part of the standard gcc40 port in FreeBSD.
> > Do you have a pointer to where this decision is explained?
>
> That took place in private e-mail, but I happen to be that maintainer
> of FreeBSD's lang/gcc40 port, so I should be able to recall the relevant
> points. ;-)
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > Why? I build gfortran routinely of both i386-*-freebsd and
> > amd64-*-freebsd. gfortran has many Fortran 95 features that g77 will
> > never have. I can also state that on some of my Fortran 77 codes,
> > gfortran generated binaries out performs the g77 binaries.
>
> Well, I certainly don't deny that, and in fact the FreeBSD lang/gcc40
> port has an option to enable gfortran (just set WITH_FORTRAN=something)
> and there is a lang/gfortran port which does just that.
>
> I'm fully aware of your development/testing on FreeBSD, and didn't want
> to imply to gfortran won't work on that platform -- just that the default
> gcc40 port there hasn't enabled it by default.
>
If there's a WITH_FORTRAN optin, then I'm fine with how you
intend to maintain the gcc4.0 port. One other item to keep
in mind, gfortran is the *only* Fortran 95 available on
non-i386 FreeBSD. One can use NAG or Intel's compiler to
generate an IA32 binarie that runs on amd64, but it can't
take advantage of more than 4 GB of memory.
--
Steve