NumPy, SciPy, universal builds, and default fortran compiler for scientific ports

[Adam Mercer]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:09, vincent habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:

Vincent

> - Further testing, especially on the new i7 machines: gcc43 seems to be incompatible, gcc45 seems to work, but gcc44 behavior is unknown to me at this time;
> - Maintainer's approval :)

I believe this i7 incompatiblity was the reason for ATLAS to use gcc44
instead of gcc43, but testing is important.

> PS : If gcc44 code is also incompatible with the i7 machines, we should maybe go a step further and adopt gcc45 for scientific packages…

gcc45 is still at 4.5.0, so if gcc45 is chosen it would probably be
better waiting till at least 4.5.1.

Cheers

Adam