During the octave port install from source I noticed that a fortran compiler was requested and not found

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, that helps a lot in my understanding of MacPorts, fortran
and ports requiring (or should be requiring) fortran.  I'll uninstall
the ports that were successfully installed prior to encountering the
perl circular depedency hell and log those unsuccessful searches for a
fortran compiler.  Then I'll create a bug report.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM Christopher Jones
<jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The LLVM fortran compilers (flang) are very much ‘work in progress’ and far from being ready for any production work. For that reason no port build will currently consider them as a viable fortran compiler. They are provided ‘as is’ to allow testing etc.
>
> Any port build that does require a fortran compiler should configure itself to use one of the macports gfortran compilers, from one of the GCC ports. If a build is failing to do this, that is an error in the port configuration.
>
> As always, emails to this list are not the correct way to report port bugs. Please file as trac ticket with the usual information (full build logs) if you want any progress on these issues.
>
> Chris
>
> n 20 Sep 2024, at 11:13 pm, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi;
> >
> > During the octave port install from source I noticed that a fortran
> > compiler was requested and not found
> >
> >  Since the octave port itself and its many dependencies heavily use
> > Fortran, it is puzzling to me that a working (suitable) Fortran
> > compiler is not required.
> >
> >  Many times (100s's??) an install step paused, looking for fortran
> > compiler, fails, continues...
> >
> >  I think I already had a Fortran compiler successfully installed (flang-19).
> >
> >  Is it possible, due to MacPorts naming schemes, that these packages
> > were unable to find the fortran compiler?
> >
> >  I am just learning how to use the numerical packages; I know that
> > Fortran is required for most of them to work properly; I'm curious
> > that the install casually going forwards without the Fortran compiler
> > is a good thing, but hey I'm the newbie here, what do I know...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
>