Any ideas on getting gfortran?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:26:13PM -0400, MD White said:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to get gfortran by grabbing the gcc44 (beta) port.  It downloaded 
> gcc-core-4.4.20090313.tar.bz2, gcc-fortran-4.4.20090313.tar.bz2, 
> gcc-g++-4.4.20090313.tar.bz2, gcc-java-4.4.20090313.tar.bz2 and 
> gcc-objc-4.4.20090313.tar.bz2 but then proceeded to just build gcc.  There 
> were no error messages, just that it installed gcc 4.4 and then cleaned 
> up.  It installed:
>
> cpp-mp-4.4
> gcc-mp-4.4
> gccbug-mp-4.4
> gcov-mp-4.4
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0-gcc-4.4.0
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0-gcc-mp-4.4
> c++-mp-4.4
> g++-mp-4.4
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0-g++-4.4.0
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0-g++-mp-4.4
>
> but, no gfortran (and no java for that matter).  So does anyone have  
> ideas on how to get gfortran 4.4 from macports?   Is there a problem with 
> the port?  (I am running OS X 10.5.6 on an intel machine).

gcc44 has a variant for it (and for java), which states "this language will
be enabled in the final version - this variant is completely untested!" so
you may be successful or have issues.

gcc43 builds it fine though, without variants.

Bryan


>
> Thanks,
>
>   - M