gfortran standalone port

[Sean Farley]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> 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?

Well, for one, the binary packages (for whatever reason) are sometimes
unavailable. And second, this fills the needs of people that want to
use the clang compiler but lack fortran.