RFC: Support for future compilers in base

[Rainer Müller]

On 2013-02-15 21:18, Sean Farley wrote:
> 
> Rainer Müller writes:
>> This change makes sense as the features supported by the gcc and clang
>> compilers shipped in ports are almost homogenous at the moment; in the
>> past there were differences as not all gcc4* shipped gfortran or gcj.
>> However, I don't expect the situation to change in the near future.
> 
> Clang doesn't provide fortran but all gcc ports do. How is that almost
> homogenous? That's a huge difference when building mpi-dependent ports.

What I meant is that all gcc4* ports provide one set of compilers and
all clang* ports provide another set of compilers. In the past, this was
not always the case and some of the gcc* ports had additional +fortran
+java variants since some of them failed to build.

Rainer