g95 as a system fortran compiler?
Scot Hetzel
swhetzel at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 18:56:39 UTC 2009
On 12/20/09, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm a user, not a developer, so I might be talking nonsense,
> in which case I apologise.
>
> I think the lack of a fortran compiler in the base OS is
> a significant minus of an otherwise very general OS.
>
The reason a fortran compiler is not in the base OS is because none of
the base OS sources require a fortran compiler to compile the source.
And it would require someone to maintain the fortran sources in the
FreeBSD svn to keep it updated.
A lack of the fortran compiler in the base OS is not a minus, it's
actually a plus having it as a port. The fortran ports will see
regular updates to them, while a version in the base OS would stay
frozen to an older release for each FreeBSD release.
> I think inclusion/exclusion of system fortran is best
> controlled via /etc/src.conf, for those who have no use
> for it.
>
The best way to add fortran to the system is to use either pkg_add or
install the port:
pkg_add -r g95-0.92.20090624.tbz
cd /usr/ports/lang/g95 ; make install
Scot
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