<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br>Clever!<br><br>One question of mine which did not get answered: "Q: why are ports like fftw-3 reported as dependents of port libgcc-devel? I don't see anything in fftw-3's portfile[2] which mentions port libgcc-devel, or indeed any gcc or libgcc, are dependencies.<br><br>"I suspect there is some behind-the-scenes dependency addition. Maybe it is behind the scenes because so many ports depend on C or C++ compilers. Where is this dependence addition documented? How should I as a user think of it?"<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>I a lot of ports gain this via the compilers PortGroup. It’s often used to for instance select a gcc compiler for fortran, as Xcode does not provide one.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/compilers-1.0.tcl">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/compilers-1.0.tcl</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br>Best regards,<br> —Jim DeLaHunt<br><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>