Compiler Portgroup ...

[Sean Farley]

Peter.Danecek at bo.ingv.it writes:

> Hi MacPorts Developers,
> Hi Sean,
>
> I am about to upgrade one of my ports which is using the "Fortran Recipe". Now, there is the "Compilers Portgroup" available and from what I understand I would serve to eliminate some code from that Portfile. 

Yep, that is the goal of the compilers portgroup.

> Unfortunately, I have no complete picture of how this port group is supposed to be used and miss some documentation, nothing found in Guide 5.9, introductory comment in the tcl file, no Recipe. 

Patches would be welcomed :-) but, yes, you are correct. I have very
little documentation since some of these ideas are still fluid and open
to discussion.

You could take a look at netcdf-fortran to see how a port can require a
fortran compiler. Probably, the best way to document this stuff is to
ask questions on the mailing list so everyone can remain in the loop
(and it can help guide me to write documentation).

> I also wonder if the Recipes "Providing compiler variants" and "Selecting a Fortran Compiler" should not be replaced/updated at this (some) point.

That was what I was thinking, too.