gfortran standalone port
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
jeremyhu at macports.org
Thu Jan 17 13:09:08 PST 2013
On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:49, Sean Farley <sean at macports.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
This is usually because they or one of their dependencies is missing a 'license' line (or failed to build).
It would be nice if 'port lint' would report about missing license lines in dependencies as well. Maybe 'port lint -R' could be made to do this.
--Jeremy
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