?typo in portfile for gcc43 with gfortran

[George Nurser]

On 26/12/2007, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2007, at 09:55, George Nurser wrote:
>
> > I have just tried to install the latest snapshot (20071221) of gcc43.
> > I did
> > sudo port -v install gcc43 +gfortran
> >
> > & got a failure
> > The following requested languages could not be built: objc++
> > Supported languages are: c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++,treelang
> > Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:
> > shell command " cd
> > "/opt/local/var/macports/build/
> > _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_
> > gcc43/work/build"
> > && ../gcc-4.3-20071221/configure --prefix=/opt/local
> > --libdir=/opt/local/lib/gcc43 --includedir=/opt/local/include/gcc43
> > --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --mandir=/opt/local/share/man
> > --with-local-prefix=/opt/local --with-system-zlib --disable-nls
> > --program-suffix=-mp-4.3
> > --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/local/include/gcc43/c++/
> > --with-gmp=/opt/local --with-mpfr=/opt/local
> > --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,objc++,fortran " returned error 1
> >
> > Looking at the portfile at http://gcc43.darwinports.com/
> > # $Id: Portfile 31647 2007-12-01 15:35:54Z mww  macports.org $
> >
> >
> > # due to popular request - untested for the BETA; will be removed as
> > soon as other languages than C compile successfuly
> > Variant: gfortran description "Enables fortran; this language will be
> > enabled in the final version - this variant is completely untested!" {
> > configure.args-delete --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++
> > configure.args-append --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,objc++,fortran
> > }
> > It looks like a typo: objc++ should be obj-c++
>
> I think you're probably right. I'll Cc gcc43's maintainer. In the
> future, you should probably file tickets in our bug tracker when you
> discover problems, making sure to assign the ticket to the port's
> maintainer.

OK. Will do that.


>
>
> > BTW -- Is there any way of correcting this manually so I can compile
> > it? I can't see a portfile on my computer.
>
> You can edit the portfile locally by typing "port edit gcc43" (or
> possibly "sudo port edit gcc43") assuming you have set up your EDITOR
> environment variable correctly.
>

Yes, that worked, and the gcc43 compiled fine. Moreover the resulting
gfortran also appears to work well.

Many thanks.
George.