Porting Fortran

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:35:54PM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Sudha Sarita wrote:
> > I am trying to port gfortran for a 32 bit target architecture. The gnu
> > toolchain including c and c++ compilers are already ported to the target.
> > The gcc version used is 4.1.2. What are the files I need to modify for the
> > same purpose? Is there any document specific to gfortran porting ? Any help
> > will be really appreciated.
> 
> I would start by simply trying to compile gfortran by adding "fortran" 
> to the --enable-languages= list. The chances are extremely high that it 
> simply works. If it doesn't, one can check the build failures. After it 
> build, you should run the regression test suite to test whether it 
> really works.
> 

IIRC, gfortran 4.1.2 has a dependency on mpfr while gcc does not.
Unless Sudha has configured gcc to look for mpfr, I doubt gfortran
will build.

-- 
Steve