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FS#394 - gcc needs more languages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Monday, 19 January 2004, 07:42 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 06:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

there is need for at least fortran for the gcc in arch

add f77 to have a dependency for packages that need fortran:

--enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Monday, 03 May 2004, 19:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 17:36 GMT
Hmm... I have doubts that there are enough fortran users to warrant an additional language added to gcc.

If enough people want a fortran compiler, I will add it. Otherwise, you'll have to rebuild gcc yourself.
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Friday, 20 February 2004, 14:00 GMT
reopened because want at least add comment :-)

this request is mainly because of compatibility: a lot of scientific- sound- math- computing-apps/libs need fortran as dependency

either as depends=() or makedepends=() or both

so all these pkgs cannot be used with arch as long as it do not have f77 in it (g95 is really alpha, so mostly nothing works as it should)

i for myself have gcc 3.3.2 with f77 on my machine at the uni (archlinux with my own gcc pkg that "provides" gcc "conflicts" gcc), but it's mostly useless, because when i try pkgs compiled with fortran on this machine, they simply do not work on the other using gcc from stock (or give strange behaviour)

( e.g. http://www.r-project.org/ do not run on stock-arch :-( )

what reason is there not to include f77? if there is some problem with size of pkg or something else, then i understand fully that it's not so good including
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 18:17 GMT
The fortran compiler costs an extra 4mb. Not too bad, but still not something I want to include in Arch's base package set.

I'll look at splitting up gcc into separate packages, if it's not too much of a hassle.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Monday, 03 May 2004, 19:55 GMT
I'm going to re-close this bug. It sounds like you've found another f77 compiler, and I (still) don't want to add f77 to base's gcc. There has been talk about supporting multiple packages from a single PKGBUILD, but we're not going to implement that. Not now, anyway.

If users need modified gcc packages, we could possibly add a "gcc-all" package to extra that contains all the available compilers.

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