[56256] trunk/dports/science/xmedcon/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:25, jameskyle at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 56256
>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/56256
> Author:   jameskyle at macports.org
> Date:     2009-08-25 13:25:22 -0700 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Removed fortran variant, replaced with gcc43. #20596
>
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>     trunk/dports/science/xmedcon/Portfile


> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>                      --with-png-prefix=${prefix}
>
>
> +default_variants    +gcc43
>
>  variant gtk2 conflicts gtk1 description {Enable gtk2 gui front end} {
>    configure.args-delete   --disable-gui
> @@ -41,10 +42,9 @@
>    configure.args-append --enable-gtk1
>  }
>
> -variant fortran description {Enable fortran compiler support} {
> +variant gcc43 description {Enable gcc43 compiler support} {
>    depends_lib-append port:gcc43
>
> -  configure.compiler ${prefix}/bin/gcc-mp-4.3
> -  configure.f77 ${prefix}/bin/gfortran-mp-4.3
> +  configure.compiler macports-gcc-4.3
>  }

Why might a user want or not want to use this variant? Again, the  
default variant makes it difficult for the user to indicate that they  
do not want to use it.