darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

Toby Peterson toby at macports.org
Tue Sep 22 16:05:50 PDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 16:04, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:00:31PM -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:53, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:44:59PM -0500, Brian Barnes wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Or, perhaps let's hope that people exist with motive, means and
>> >> opportunity to contribute to gcc and keep it working on OS X, and are
>> >> able to do so.  I would rather not lose future updates to the only fast,
>> >> free Fortran compiler on OS X.  I cannot comprehend why you wish for some
>> >> of us to lose our tools with no fast, free replacement even vaguely in
>> >> sight.
>> >>
>> >> Brian
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>> >
>> >   That answer is easy. Toby doesn't need them.
>>
>> While that is true, the main thing is that this discussion belongs elsewhere.
>>
>> This is macports-dev
>>
>> - Toby
>
>   Well it directly impacts one of your ports (regardless of how much you
> detest that particular package) and all other ports like octave that depend
> on it.

To which port are you referring?

- Toby


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