gfortran standalone port

Jack Howarth howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu
Thu Jan 17 12:47:46 PST 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:40:36PM -0600, Sean Farley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was writing to ask about adding this standalone port for gfortran 4.7:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/seanfarley/scienceports/src/tip/lang/gfortran/Portfile?at=default
> 
> The reason I wrote this was to solve the "I need a fortran compiler
> only" that some ports have. Historically, g95 has not been a good
> solution for this due to its own problems, but none the less, I wrote
> a port group for adding fortran compilers that adds both g95 and
> gfortran.
> 
> A few questions I had,
> 
> 1) Is it ok to host the binary at bitbucket?
> 
> 2) What would be the preferred way to set an optional dependence on
> fortran? Currently, I use a variable "fortran.optional=yes" but could
> switch it to a … proc (a la just like the github portgroup)? Something
> else?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any comments!

Is this really necessary considering that binary builds should already
be available for the current gcc47 package?

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